At 04:45 PM 7/19/99 -0600, you wrote:
Have tried setting the file type to msdos?
I recently couldn't get my Win95 partitions recognized or mounted correctly
until I made them msdos type. It makes it kind of hard to read the titles
of some files (especially the mp3s) but at least I can get to them, and the
titles expand all right in the play lists.
hgh
>
>I have a fat32 partition (my "D:" drive) after my Linux partitions on
>a 13 gig hard drive. I can mount the C: drive (/dev/hda1), but so far
>have not been able to mount /dev/hda9. Here is what I get:
>
>[ /mnt ] root # mount /dev/hda9
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9,
> or too many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> instead of some logical partition inside?)
>[ /mnt ] root #
>
>I've tried various permutations of fstab; here is the most recent effort:
>
>[ /etc ] root # cat fstab
>/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/hda8 none swap defaults 0 0
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,noauto 0 1
>/dev/hda9 /mnt/win2 vfat user,noauto 0 1
>
> o What am I doing wrong with /dev/hda9?
>
> o Can I mount two /dev/hdaX's on /mnt/win, or do they need separate
>mounting points?
>
> o Is user,noauto correct for /dev/hda9?
>
> o Also, my swap partition gives an error. The line above used to say:
>
>/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
>...instead of:
>
>/dev/hda8 none swap defaults 0 0
>
>...but it has failed both before and after this change. Is "none" correct,
>or is "swap"? I know that I need to explore this more, to provide info
>for analysis, but thought someone might have a suggestion.
>
>fdisk -l gives:
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1662 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 702 5638783+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 703 1662 7711200 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
>/dev/hda6 703 1024 2586402 83 Linux
>/dev/hda7 1025 1534 4096543+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda8 1535 1551 136521 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda9 1552 1662 891576 b Win95 FAT32
>
>thanks,
>best wishes,
>
>richard myers
>
>
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