partitions

[Mark Robson]

Oh, good catch, Bob, I now remember we must all wish
you well for Friday.  Speedy recovery, and all. 
Unfortunately, that may knock me off again.  I've
meant to get to a meeting for the last six months, but
it seems to be jinxed.  

Well, got  fdisk -l dev/hda to report that in fact I
have hda1 and hda5 patitions,  no hda2 to mount.  

Now, when I have both FAT partitions mounted, system
locks up catastrophically.  No mouse, kbd, nothing. 
Only responds to hard reset.  Doesn't happen with just
one or the other singly, only when I mount both. 
Well, it did that twice, but now I've got both
mounted, and it isn't locking up yet.  Makes me wonder
if the drive itself is failing, thus the corrupted
drivers?  Is there a way to tell if this is so short
of waiting for it to die?  Less than 1yr old WD 80gb,
should be under warranty yet.  

Thanks in advance, 

Mark 


--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Mark Robson <markrobson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, it will be there, then.  Even if I get this
> > solved meantime (LOL).  I guess you'll have
> monitors
> > to use, so I'll need to bring the kbd/mouse and
> box? 
> 
> Remember the meeting is the 28th, not the 21st... 
> Bring kbd and mouse 'cuz we
> don't have any in the office.
> 
> > 
> > Meantime, I seem to have lied when I said I could
> see
> > both partitions on the 80gb drive.  When I go: 
> > 
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win 
> > 
> > I can get a view of the c: drive where my o/s is
> > installed, and the source for the files I want to
> > rescue.  I 'thought' I could just modify that to :
> 
> > 
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/winD 
> > 
> > to make the same view true for my D: partition on
> that
> > same drive.  I have already created /mnt/winD. 
> > Instead, I get this complaint: 
> > 
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
> on
> > /dev/hda2, 
> >        or too many mounted file systems 
> >        (aren't you trying to mount an extended
> > partition, 
> >        instead of some logical partition inside?) 
> > 
> > I don't remember making hda2 NTFS, but is that
> likely
> > the problem?  How would I determine that? 
> 
> Well, if you type 'fdisk /dev/hda' and then type 'p'
> to get it to print the
> partition map, you should see what the partiton
> types are set to.  If it's
> NTFS, you need to have the ntfs modules installed on
> your machine.  The linux
> NTFS modules are read only and write mode is only
> experimental.
> > 
> > Is a 'bad superblock' as bad as it sounds?  Can I
> > determine that (considering my newbie-ness)? 
> 
> It either means that the filesystem is corrupted
> hopelessly, not formatted or
> the system doesn't understand the filesystem type on
> the drive.  It could also
> mean that there isn't an hda2 partition on the
> drive.
> 
> > 
> > I am trying to mount an extended partition, not a
> > logical partition insde; maybe I just need a
> different
> > option?  
> > 
> > I need to learn how to edit fstab to automate this
> > anyways, don't I.  Another of the skills I haven't
> yet
> > picked up.  I wish I had the time to take classes
> to
> > get this down.  I'm the proverbial one who knows
> just
> > enough to get into trouble.  
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
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