Re: Re: acessing hard drives in live cd's

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 priyadarsan roy wrote :
>
>
>--- 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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