You may need to change the partition lable. This is independent of the
underlying filesystem. You *should* be able to do this under fdisk ('m'
gives you a menu of options), but I'd back things up just in case.On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:55:02AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm experiencing some problems with fdisk reporting BSD partitions on > a disk with ext2 partitions. I think that I did have a BSD slice on > there at the very beginning, but I don't remember whether it's still > there. It could be hdc2, but I couldn't figure out a way to mount the > partitions from it. Below is the output from fdisk. I don't know how > to manipulate the partitions this way... > > `mount' mounts hdc1, hdc4, hdc5 and hdc6 without a problem. hdc3 is > linux swap. > > How could I get to the partitions from Linux? > > Thanks for any hints! > > ,----[ fdisk ] > | Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 26500 cylinders > | Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > | > | 8 partitions: > | # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > | a: 1 7* 6* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > | b: 7* 32* 25* swap > | c: 1 1663* 1662* unused 0 0 > | e: 32* 57* 25* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > | f: 57* 83* 25* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > | g: 83* 1663* 1580* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 > `---- > > ,----[ dmesg ] > | Partition check: > | hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 hdc4 > `---- > > ,----[ mount ] > | /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/hdc1 type ext2 (rw) > | /dev/hdc4 on /mnt/hdc4 type ext2 (rw) > | /dev/hdc6 on /mnt/hdc6 type ext2 (rw) > | /dev/hdc5 on /mnt/hdc5 type ext2 (rw) > `---- > -- > Arcady Genkin > Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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