Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Well this could well be what it is I need to learn. I've posted the /etc/estab below for you to comment on while I go searching for some knowledge about it. Thanks for pointing it out to me.On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126 2937 22587390 85 Linux extended /dev/hda3 2938 4434 12024652+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4435 4870 3502170 6 FAT16 /dev/hda5 126 250 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda6 251 1496 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1497 1559 506016 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 1560 2805 10008463+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2806 2937 1060258+ 83 Linux
and:
/dev/hdb1 * 1 1827 14675346 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb2 1828 1829 16065 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1830 2491 5317515 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1830 1841 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 1842 1853 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1854 2263 3293293+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 2264 2295 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb9 2296 2491 1574338+ 83 Linux
Now I'm lost with the "non-FAT' statement. As you can see I have FAT on both HDDs so your reply suggested that I needed to configure things?
No, that's not what he was saying. He was just saying that the drive letter C will ONLY be assigned to partitions that winblows stuff understands, and that happens to be restricted to winblows partitions and not non-dos or non-ntfs stuff.
Technically you can have a fat anywhere you like. I personally would have done a type "c" which is Win95 FAT32 in LBA mode. Most of the time that's what win98 chooses for itself. The file system is a little faster and allows for larger partitions.
I do recall that when attempting to update to Mandrake 10 that lilo thought that my FAT partitions were windows OS's but I didn't see this when I went ahead with a clean install. I have fought hard with this partition problem for some time and feel that I might be missing something real simple, so forgive me for persevering. Right now everything runs fine in this regard but the next time I go to update or try something different I can see me getting balder.
What you probably ought to do is hang with what you have for a bit until you get sorted out and get all your ducks in a row, and then decide what you're layout is going to be based on what you know and what you need.
What would be handy is if you could post your /etc/fstab so that I could see how you are mounting these partitions. There's a simple method to layout and then there are more unecessarily complex methods; it seems to me that what you are doing may be a little more complex than it needs to be.
LX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# rpm -qa | grep checkinstall
checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta2.1mdk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/empty ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2_boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5_root ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6_var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7_usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb9 /mnt/hdb9_home ext2 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,nosuid,nodev,kudzu 0 0
none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/win_h vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap swap 1 2
/dev/hdb8 swap swap defaults 0 0
Looks like it could use a clean out but then I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Catch you soon I hope.
-- Regards
SnapafunFrank
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