Sounds like a bug/quirk in gnome. You shouldnt be able to try and mount a extended partition.
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:55 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm not sure if this is a quirk or something else. > > I have a couple of mounts at/mnt > /mnt/sda1 > /mnt/sda2 > /mnt/sda5 > > say.. one of my removable disks has an extended partition namely > > p1 p2 < p5 > > > If I were to click on sda2 (under Gnome's My computer) it would hang the > whole system. > > (note that /dev/sda2 is actually the container for the extended > partition ) > 8 0 78150744 sda > 8 1 5116671 sda1 > 8 2 1 sda2 > 8 5 10241406 sda5 > > Anyone can offer an clues?? > > > > > -- > Ow Mun Heng > Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz > 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! > Neuromancer 15:26:01 up 12 min, 3 > users, load average: 1.26, 1.25, > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
