Re: acessing hard drives in live cd's

--- gingerjoos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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


Your hde2 is an extended partition Win95 Ext'd (LBA). 

> 
> 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. :(
> 

You have to further make logical partitions in an
extended partition and format it to some filesystem to
start mounting them. I had a prior opinion that only 4
partitions were possible on a harddisk. In this four
one of them can be made extended and then multile
logical partitions made in it from hdx5 -> hdx16. I
did some google and this URL says the same thing

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4232/1/

But from the fdisk -l shown above it seems hde2 has
become the extended partition. My idea was hdx4 was
always the extended partition. I am confused seing
hde2 here....

PD


	
		
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