LMAO! Let me try this again... 'mount -t vfat dev/hda5 /mnt/window" will
work wonders!
Travis Walls
tawalls1@tampabay.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Cartagena" <gnorb@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mounting a fat32 partition
> 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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