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[clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Clive Rogers)]

Clive Rogers wrote:
> 
> TRBishop wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Liane.Pirscher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Hi Listers,
> > >
> > > have a problem with mounting my dos partition.
> > >
> > > in /etc/fstab:
> > >
> > > /dev/hda3 /dos ???  user 0 0
> > >
> > > where ??? has contained all possible values for fs type.
> > >
> > > still i get the error message bad fs type.  does anyone have
> > > a suggestion on how to solve the mounting problem?
> > >
> > > Would appreciate any help, thanks
> > >
> > > Liane
> 
> Hi Liane,
> 
> I'm pretty new to Linux myself so hope this helps.
> 
> When Linux splits up your drive (or you partition it) linux uses
> 
> hda1 windows (c drive in dos)
> hda5 partition 2 (windows or linux)
> hda6 partition 3  "             "
> hda7 partition 4  "             "
> hda8 partition 5  "             "
> etc,
> 
> On my machine my kfstab looks like this :-
> 
> /dev/hda1 /windows vfat rw,user 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /windows-d vfat rw,user 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext  defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda7 /swap swap dafaults 0 1
> /dev/hda8 /   ext 1 2
> 
> Notice hda2,3,4 are missing, hda2 I assume to be the second partition
> before its spilt in to logical drives. Linux starts counting at 5 for
> the second partition onwards.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Clive


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