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I've just recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my desktop PC besides Windows XP in an attempt to gradually switch over to Linux. Overall everything works fine, but Ubuntu couldn't mount ...
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    How to deal with SFS (Dynamic Disk) partitions?

    I've just recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my desktop PC besides Windows XP in an attempt to gradually switch over to Linux. Overall everything works fine, but Ubuntu couldn't mount one of my partitions and i have no idea how to do it manually since it's not NFTS/FAT32. It turns out it's SFS.
    I would really appreciate some advice on what to do about it...should i risk converting the partitions to NTFS? merging them (since it recognizes the 1st partition on the SATA disk)? or is there some kind of SFS support available for Linux?
    Here's my fdisk -l output:

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    Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
    16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 620181 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1               1      620181   312571192+  42  SFS
    
    Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hda2            2551        3766     9767520   83  Linux
    /dev/hda3            3767        4865     8827717+   5  Extended
    /dev/hda5            3767        3888      979933+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/hda6            3889        4865     7847721    b  W95 FAT32

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    try to mount sda1 with 'ntfs' filesystem option.
    Code:
    sudo mkdir /media/sda1
    sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
    ls /media/sda1
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    Thanks for the help. I tried mounting sda1 but it's already mounted.
    So i tried:

    Code:
     sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /media/movies -o defaults,umask=0
    And it works! However i would like it to mount automatically on startup. That would mean editing the /etc/fstab file right?
    Right now it looks like this :
    Code:
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
    # /dev/hda2
    UUID=78fa954b-aa5c-4d10-afe3-3b2c11805fbd /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
    # /dev/hda6
    UUID=2267-49BD  /media/fat_transfer vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
    # /dev/sda1
    UUID=A0944068944042D0 /media/music_kits ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
    # /dev/hda1
    UUID=E894499994496AE0 /media/windows  ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
    # /dev/hda5
    UUID=b6b0af07-56e4-4012-9710-7b2057a4c40a none            swap    sw              0       0
    /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
    /dev/           /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
    So i should add something like?:
    Code:
    # /dev/sda2
    UUID=???????????? /media/movies ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
    But i have no clue what to add for UUID

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    you can use /dev/sda2 only instead of UUID. but if you want to use UUID only, execute this
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    sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda2
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    Yep it works that way, thanks for the help

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