[ug-bosug] mounting problem

Moinak Ghosh Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM
Wed Jan 24 03:26:03 PST 2007


Hi Anand,

   For FAT32 do this:

prtpart /dev/dsk/c0d1p0 -doslabel


Then use the device names displayed in the  mount -F pcfs ... command.

Regards,
Moinak.

Anand Bheemarajaiah wrote:
> I have 2 hard disks ( 160GB+40GB) . In my secondary HDD(40GB) i have 3 partitions. 
>
> primary - fat32
> extended
> 1) ntfs
> 2) fat32
>
> now i will list the output of commands i typed, tell me how to mount the fat32 drive in the extended partition,
>
> ---------------------------------------
> bash-3.00# prtpart /dev/dsk/c0d1p0 -ldevs
>
> Fdisk information for device /dev/dsk/c0d1p0
>
> ** NOTE **
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p0      - Physical device referring to entire physical disk
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p1 - p4 - Physical devices referring to the 4 primary partitions
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p5 ...  - Virtual devices referring to logical partitions
>
> Virtual device names can be used to access EXT2 and NTFS on logical partitions
>
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p1 WIN95 FAT32(Upto 2047GB)
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p2 WIN95 Extended(LBA)
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p5 IFS: NTFS
> /dev/dsk/c0d1p6 WIN95 FAT32(Upto 2047GB)
>
> bash-3.00# ls -dF /mnt/old[cde]drive
> /mnt/oldcdrive/  /mnt/oldddrive/  /mnt/oldedrive/
> bash-3.00# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p1 /mnt/oldcdrive/
> bash-3.00# mount -F ntfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p5 /mnt/oldddrive/
> bash-3.00# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p6 /mnt/oldedrive/
> mount: No such file or directory
> bash-3.00#
> ---------------------------------------
>
> I can mount my primary drive but not the extended one.
>
>
> Anand B
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