Mark Polhamus wrote:
> Extended partitions can't be mounted, they contain logical partitions
> which can be mounted. See "Linux Partition HOWTO":
> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/partition/Partition.html, especially
> http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/partition/partition-3.html#logical.
>
> Are you sure you have the correct partition? What does "fdisk -l
> /dev/hda" say?
>
>
> -- Mark Polhamus
>
>
> William Coulter wrote:
>
>> Ok I have new problem with mounting a fat32 partition. When I mkdir a
>> directory called "window"
>> and ran the command "mount -t vfat dev/hda2 /mnt/window" now I get an
>> error that says "Are you
>> mounting an extended partition not a logical partition? Fat is bogus
>> logical sector." The last
>> time I did mount a fat partition it was a second drive, this time it
>> is an extended partition.
>>
>> So, how do I mount an extended fat32 partition?
>>
>> William
>
>
>
Maybe I'm way off the mark here, but hda2 an extended partition? I
thought that extended partitions were 5 and above, and that 1-4 were
primary. Can someone explain this?
Gnorb
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