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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 ...
- 03-06-2007 #1Just Joined!
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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:
Code: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
- 03-07-2007 #2
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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- 03-07-2007 #3Just Joined!
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Thanks for the help. I tried mounting sda1 but it's already mounted.
So i tried:
And it works! However i would like it to mount automatically on startup. That would mean editing the /etc/fstab file right?Code:sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /media/movies -o defaults,umask=0
Right now it looks like this :
So i should add something like?: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
But i have no clue what to add for UUIDCode:# /dev/sda2 UUID=???????????? /media/movies ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
- 03-08-2007 #4
you can use /dev/sda2 only instead of UUID. but if you want to use UUID only, execute this
Code:sudo vol_id -u /dev/sda2
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- 03-08-2007 #5Just Joined!
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Yep it works that way, thanks for the help


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