partitions

[Robert Meyer]

Hmmm... sounds like the partitions may be overlapping?  The output of 'fdisk
-l' might be useful for us to help...

Cheers!

Bob

--- Mark Robson <markrobson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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> 
> =====
> 
> Mark Robson
> 
> 
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