Flawless Install, but where are my partitions and drives??

**johonbravo** · 05-12-2004

I have my system partitioned like this:

(the sizes are estimates)

1.5 GB Primary1 Fat32 Win98
2 GB Primary2 NTFS WinXP
2 GB Primary3 Ext2 Fedora
5 GB Extended1 Ext3 (future Mandrake)
5 GB Extended2 FAT32 (Shared)
95 GB Extended3 NTFS (Storage)

Then an 80 GB NTFS with XP on it.

All the operating systems installed work.

I installed Fedora Core, Opened the file manager and went to /mnt
All that was there was floppy and cdrom.
So I opened up the Terminal and typed "mount /dev/hde2"
It gave an error saying that its not found etc...
I looked in /etc/fstab and no drives/partitions were listed except the floppy and cdrom.
So I looked in the folder with all the drive labels in it (im a newbie, bear with me, i think it was /dev or /etc as Im in XP right now so i cannot look)
It had hda hda1 hde1 etc.. and hundreds of other ones.
So then in the Terminal I typed "fdisk -l"
and It listed all the drives/partions, their filesystem, size etc...
It showed that they were there and it named them hde1 hde2 hde3 etc...
I tried everything i knew and could not mount them. How cna I access them??

Thanx

**jeremy1701** · 05-13-2004

In order to mount the other partitions, you need to add them to fstab. You can do it manually using any text editor or I believe there's a gui that you can use, or at least there is with Mandrake.

After theyre added, you should be able to mount them.

Good luck!
Jeremy

**ooop** · 05-13-2004

If I understood you right, then your partitions are probably something like this :

/dev/hda1 Win98
/dev/hda2 WinXP
/dev/hda3 Fedora
/dev/hda5 Future Mandrake
/dev/hda6 Fat32
/dev/hda7 Storage

you can use the mount command, although I strongly recommend adding them to your fstab.

Try this :
mkdir /mnt/win98
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98

and do the same with the rest, except change mountpoints, and types
(which are specified with the -t option)

also, you might experience errors like : "bad superblock, or wrong fs type, or too many filesystems mounted"

all this means is that either
a ) You have tried to use the wrong filesystem (for example, ntfs for a linux partition)
b ) Your machine doesn't support the filesystem ( you might need to add support for vfat and/or ntfs)

Hope it was of some help

//ooop

**johonbravo** · 05-13-2004

umm I will try this and get back to you.

last time i booted into it it wouldnt allow me to use fdisk. It had a bash: for it.

**johonbravo** · 05-14-2004

now for both fdisk and anything with -t in it it gives: "bash: fdisk: command not foung" and the same for -t.

I cant do anything....

very weird.

**lordnothing** · 05-14-2004

are you doing all of this as root?

**johonbravo** · 05-14-2004

It was working for both User and Root before...

now I have tried both root and user again and it doesnt work.

I havent done any major system changes and basically everything is still at default.

**jeremy1701** · 05-14-2004

perhaps fdisk needs to be called with the absolute path, like so:

Code:

$/usr/sbin/fdisk

Use:

Code:

$which fdisk

to find it's location and try to use the enitre path.

Jeremy

**rh6user209** · 05-14-2004

Maybe this is not the issue, but when working with large drives and different filesystems, also be aware of weird filesystem 'interference' (not easely noticeable). It's not well documented, but sometimes bios limitations may look like everything is ok, showing disk space correctly, and then the operating system finally try to write to sectors (usually in the end of the disk) that will end up overwriting sectors on another partition (usually in the begginning of the disk), destroying it.

I experienced this about 6 months ago with a 32gig limited bios that seemed to recognize the 40g ide ata drive ok, and also had no problems partitioning and installing different operating systems. And i would never notice the issue, if hadn't tried to wipe free space on the partition in the end of the disk. I wonder how many people with large disks face the same issue months, maybe *years after partitioning their drives (and atributing the issue to something else without a clue of what exactly happened).

Obviously, if this is the case, you will not be able to view/mount the offending filesystem(s) anymore.

**Whitetornado** · 06-02-2004

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