On Thu, 16 May 2002, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> > > I have an additional 30GB IDE hard drive partitioned in two: > > > > > > -/dev/hdf6 is an Apple HFS partition, I can mount it with no problem under 8.2 > > > > > > -/dev/hdf7 that is an SVR2 partition that I CAN'T get to mount whatever tool I > > > use to > > > partition it (pdisk under MacOS or XFdrake under 8.2) > > > Everytime, mount gives me an error message about this rebel partition like it's > > > not > > > the correct fs... > > > tried a bunch of variation around 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf7 /mnt/yap15' with no > > > succes. > > > > > > > Silly question - did you mke2fs and create the filesystem after the > > pdisk/diskdrake activity? > > Not that silly... what I did in Hdrake was delete-create the Linux Native partition > (even did a 'format' after the creation at some point) I supposed that was enough > is it not? > Yes the diskdrake "format" is the same as mkfs. You could could try to manually do the same and see if it's some diskdrake anomoly. I'm looking at my /dev/ and it doesn't show any hdf*, but I'm guessing that devfs took care of creating the devices for you? Could you post the output of: pdisk -l /dev/hdf Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
