Mounting Linux Extended Partition

[James Warner]

Quick question on mounting a partition under SUSE.
I have a old Suse drive which I would like to copy all the data from. The drive information is shown below.

root@APCM8:/jrwarner> fdisk -l
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x11209cdd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2081 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 2082 155061 77101920 85 Linux extended

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x39b039af

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2874 48641 367631460 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 100.2 GB, 100256292864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12188 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x074d074c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 26 12188 97699297+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

I believe the partition I want to mount is /dev/sda2.
When I go to mount this I get the following error:

root@APCM8:/jrwarner> mount /dev/sda2 /home2
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

So I try specifying a files system type and I get this.

root@APCM8:/jrwarner> mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /home2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Any idea on what I may be doing wrong or is my hard drive just messed up?

Thanks.

[HROAdmin26]

aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?

It's telling you the problem. You can't mount an extended partition. There should be logical partitions created within the extended.

[rwarner174]

So how do you go about mounting the logical partitions then?

[HROAdmin26]

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x11209cdd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2081 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 2082 155061 77101920 85 Linux extended

Fdisk says you don't have any. You have a primary marked as swap, and an extended. Logical's would be listed as sda5, sda6, etc.