Re: acessing hard drives in live cd's

>>mine was /dev/hde3 . This is the o/p i got
>>
>>>mount: special device /dev/hde3 does not exist
> 
> It means that /dev/hde3 doesn't exist. Use fdisk -l to see which
> partitions are there and then repeat the command with that partition
> name.

I tried the mounting using both Red Hat and Ubuntu Live.

Here's the output of my fdisk -l command in Red Hat.
> 
> Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hde1   *         1      1275  10241406    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hde2          1276      3147  15036840    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hde3          3148      4039   7164990   83  Linux
> /dev/hde4          4040      4109    562275   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hde5          1276      3085  14538793+   b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hde6          3086      3123    305203+  83  Linux

I successfully mounted /dev/hde1 and /dev/hde5

I had assumed that the same partition names will be received as o/p of 
fdisk in Ubuntu Live. I was wrong. Instead of /dev/hde1 it was /dev/sda1 
and so on.

I changed the parameters accordingly and sucessfully mounted hde1 and 5. :)

Problem was with hde2. This partition doesn't show up in Windows or Red 
Hat. The person who installed Red Hat had forgotten about this 
partition. I tried mounting it in both RH and Ubuntu. Both showed 
errors. Here's the error that showed up in Red Hat.
> mount: error while guessing filesystem type
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

this was when i gave the command #mount /dev/hde2 /mnt/disk2
instead i gave #mount -t vfat /dev/hde2 /mnt/disk2

i tried fat32,ext3 instead of vfat too, but it still doesn't mount. :(

 >>>Anirudh

ps : sorry for the delay in replying. I wans't home for a long time.

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