I am attempting to get my Redhat 9 linux to find the second and third partitions on a windows drive attached to my machine.

when I run fdisk -l i get this for the second drive

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 9730 78156193+ 42 SFS

it is a maxtor 80 gig hd. all good. except that it is partitioned into 3 parts. 30g 30g 20g (roughly)

the redhat hardware browser agrees and also shows it as one drive hdb1 76 gigs.

but a df -k show the mounted drive but only the first partition (the only one that gets mounted when i mount hdb1)

/dev/hdb1 30G 15G 15G 51% /home/al/2-windows

I have tried to mount hdb2 or hdb1a and they are not there. Any Ideas how to mount the second and third partition?

Thanks for any help!

-alan

Just out of curiosity, are they considered "dynamic disks" in Windows? W2K and XP have a setting where a fixed disk can be "dynamic" and growable I think. Linux tends to gag on these weird microsoft things. NT4 pukes too when it sees one.

I've found you can' t mount more than 4 devices from you primary and secondary ide cables. I have 2 hdds and 1 cdrw. It counts swap paritions as mounts and any windows partition as a mount point also. So I don't know if you'll be able to get it to work.

Again, don't give advice if your going to give bad advice/information. I've got one system dual booted with Win2k and Linux with a total of 13 partitions, as I am mounting all of them or they'd be useless now wouldn't they?

And you don't have to have Linux count Windows as a mount, only if you add it to your fstab file to mount and obtain/use files from your Windows system, etc.

Regards.

You can't put more than four physical devices on the standard two IDE cables, but you can partition those four devices up into a bunch of parts and mount them all. I've never done thirteen of them, but as trickykid points out, it can be done.

Well as a linux convert (on my way anyhow), I have learned to become really annoyed by Microsoft. Thanks to

saraev,

cause you hit the nail on the head. or the sector... It is formatted to dynamic, and not basic, and I am pretty sure that is what is causing the problems. Luckily all I have to do is repartition the entire drive... ah...

But thanks for your help!

-alan

I know the feeling. When I first ran into that dynamic disk issue, holy crap it took me a bloody week to get over the rage and ire.

Keep on the Linux path and the days of anger will soon be over.

Cheers!