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From: Rob Hunter <hunterr@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: mounting fat32
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Rob Hunter wrote,
> > this is the drive with which I'm having problems. Just to clarify (I don't
> > think my 1st mail was too clear) it's the 2nd partition on the 2nd drive
> > (primary slave) that won't mount...
> 
> > [root@sticky] ~# mount_msdos /dev/wd1s2 /win2
> > mount_msdos: /dev/wd1s2: Invalid argument
> > [root@sticky] ~# Feb 23 11:53:59 sticky /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb
> > Feb 23 11:53:59 sticky /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad bpb
> > 
> > This is what fdisk wd1 shows:
> > 
> > The data for partition 1 is:
> > sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
> >     start 63, size 1644993 (803 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> >         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
> >         end: cyl 203/ sector 63/ head 127
> > The data for partition 2 is:
> > sysid 5,(Extended DOS)
> >     start 1645056, size 4693248 (2291 Meg), flag 0
> >         beg: cyl 204/ sector 1/ head 0;
> >         end: cyl 785/ sector 63/ head 127
> > 
> > Is the 2nd partition supposed to be wd1s2?
> 
> No. This is what I eluded to in my first mail. Extended DOS partitions
> are handled differently. But it's easy, they start numbering at '5'
> rather than the next slice number. So, to mount the first extended DOS
> partition, you type,
> 
> # mount -t msdos /dev/wd1s5 /win2
> 
> The biggest chanllenge is that you might have toe create the device
> with MAKEDEV,
> 
> # cd /dev
> # ./MAKEDEV wd0s5
> 
> If you have troubles with this, we ought to move it to -questions.
Not necessary. Thanks, it worked.

--Rob



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