Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Bob Stia <rnr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Hope somebody can explain these two odd things about my partitions.

Have two hard drives, dual boot.  Windows on hda (6 gig), and Suse on 
hdb (30 gig)  I use Partition Magic to set up the drives.  Set up 
separate space and partitioned that on hdb to add another Linux OS to 
try out. Have not yet installed the other system. 

This is what PM shows as partitions. hdb1= /, hdb2 = /usr, hdb3 = 
swap,  All primary partitions. That is what I set up originally using 
about half the drive.   The space I set up, hdb4, is an extended 
primary partition with logical partitions inside for the new OS. Now, 
however, the Suse boot message shows the following:

<6> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb3 hdb4

Why is hdb2 the extended partition instead of hdb4?  Is that 
something Suse did when it installed? My fstab also reflects the 
hdb1, hdb3, and hdb4 configuration. I guess that I never noticed it 
until I repartioned.  Should I go back into PM and change the 
configuration?  I hate to do that.......BTW should I set up a 
separate swap space for the new OS, or will it find the original swap 
space?

OK, on to the 2nd question about hda, the windows partitions. I 
frequentl access the windows partitions for documents and data
still saved there.  This is what PM shows as the partitions on hda.
hda1 =C: System (primary), hda2 =extended (pimary), with 3 logical 
partitions within as hda3= D: Applications, hda4= E: Data, and
hda5 =E: Storage.  Used to be able to access them all.  Now, this is
what the boot message shows for hda:

<6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
 
Notice that hda3 and hda4 are missing and the other partitions have 
been bumped up two numbers. The two primaries are OK but two of the 
logicals don't show.  So now when I try to mount hda3 or hda4, I get 
the following message:

root@linux:/ > mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,       
or too many mounted file systems
       (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
       ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
root@linux:/ >

No! it isn't.  My cdrom and cdwriter mount as /dev/cdrom and
/dev/cdrecorder. And why, are two devices which are in reality
hdc and hdd taking/holding places which should only be partitions
on the harddrive, hda ??   This is my fstab file:

/dev/hdb1	/		ext2	defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrecorder	/cdrecorder	auto	defaults,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom		auto	ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
devpts		/dev/pts	devpts	defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0		/floppy		auto	noauto,user 0 0
proc		/proc		proc	defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3	/usr		ext2	defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1	/windows/C	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda3	/windows/D	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda4	/windows/E	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda5	/windows/F	vfat	noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdb4	swap		swap	defaults    0 2
/dev/sda1	/mnt/usbhd	auto	defaults,user,noauto  0 0

Hope that some of you expert partioning guys can explain this to me.

TIA, Bob