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In a nutshell an extended partition is a container for logical partitions and can not be mounted. Logical partitions start at ID5 so you would want to mount /dev/hda5. However you may have more then one logical partition. To find out exactly how your drive is partition look at the output of the fdisk command (as root)
fdisk -l /dev/hda
I tried that. acutally I think I messed up the 4 gb drive. I am trying to reinstall and the hba won't come up... first time installing onto 2 hd. live and learn...
Mount only goes looking in fstab/mtab if you don't specify enough on the command. You can't just say something like "mount /media/whatever" you need (at least) the physical device - maybe type as well.
You can use the YaST partitioner to mount a new partition. This will edit your /etc/fstab file also.
The mtab file is written by the system to indicate what partitions are currently mounted.
I had formatted the extended partion. it said 0 bytes. and I cleared the partition table. YaST partitioner wouldn't read it. thanks for the info about mtab and fstab. next time I will use the partitioner first thing.
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