Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde gives me /dev/hde1 * ... /dev/hde2 ... /dev/hde5 ...
/hde2 and /hde5 give the same starting and ending blocks, so I assume hde5 is the logical partition and hde2 is the extended partition fdisk -l /dev/hdf gives me /hdf1 and hdf2 Problem: Neither ls /f (assigned in /etc/fstab to /hde5) nor /h (assigned in /etc/fstab to hdf2) works An interesting observation. On the drive labeled as hdf, I have the second partition in fat32 yet both are shown as ntfs. Is Microsoft jury-rigging this to seem to behave as fat32 when in fact it is actually ntfs? -- David -----Original Message----- From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:35:25PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in > fstab and elsewhere > > For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended > partition, is that hde2 or what <snip> > I might be able to resolve this more fully if I good see the dialog that > flashes by on booting. That's what led me to use hde. The rest of it goes > by too fast to read. How do I redirect that startup stream To get a list of the partitions on /dev/hde do: fdisk -l /dev/hde To get the disk partition stuff out of the boot messages: dmesg | grep hd (or just dmesg | less to page through the whole lot) Some examples from my system. This is a SCSI drive so it's /dev/sd? instead of /dev/hd?, but everything else is the same. # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 255 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 26 208813+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sdb2 27 90 514080 6 FAT16 /dev/sdb3 91 94 32130 5 Extended /dev/sdb4 95 255 1293232+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/sdb5 91 91 8001 1 FAT12 /dev/sdb6 92 92 8001 1 FAT12 /dev/sdb7 93 93 8001 1 FAT12 /dev/sdb8 94 94 8001 1 FAT12 Here, /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 are primary DOS partitions, /dev/sdb3 is an extended partition, and /dev/sdb4 is a primary Windoze partition. Having numbered all the primary partitions, we now start numbering the logical partitions inside the extended partition. So these are numbered /dev/sdb5 ... /dev/sdb8. These are logical partitions of the very small DOS variety (they are in fact "dummies" to keep Windoze's drive letters consistent after I shuffled my hard disks around). You can tell these are extended partitions because their start and end figures are within the range of the start and end figures of the extended partition (91 - 94). You can also tell from the dmesg output: # dmesg | grep sdb Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 4110000 512-byte hdwr sectors (2104 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 > sdb4 This notation means that sdb5 ... sdb8 are logical partitions inside the extended partition sdb3. Note: you can't mount an extended partition. You have to mount the logical partition(s) inside it. So if you have a base partition hde1, and an extended partition hde2, and that's it for primary partitions, your first logical drive inside the extended partition will be hde3, and that's what you need to be mounting, if I've understood your problem correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
