On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:55 -0700, praxis wrote:
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yonaton@localnet.com wrote:
Quoting praxis
: Here's what I got:
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 128 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 129 4045 31463302+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 * 4046 4436 3140707+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 4437 9964 44403660 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 4982 40017883+ 83 Linux
It's possible I may have also made a 'boot' partition on hda when I installed a long time ago, but can't remember for certain... <sigh>
hdb is just one 'directory' which I named 'movies'. It's seen in konqueror too, but shows nothing in it (I guess it's unmounted also, right?).
Forrest replied:
Okay, John, good. now according to the fstab you posted earlier :
I do see this also, a 'data1', but it's also empty, no /user or anything. This is also what's in my fstab:
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hda3 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda4 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
It looks like your main "/" partition is /dev/hda2, and your system is using /dev/hda1 as swap. There are two other Linux formatted partitions on this disk: /dev/hda3, and /dev/hda4. Also interesting from the fdisk info you posted is that /dev/hda3, the third partition on your main ATA/IDE hard drive, is marked "bootable" -- that might have been the "boot" partition you were speaking of earlier. I would hazard a guess -- its only a guess --that your "home" is actually on /dev/hda4, based on the size...but it could be either one. Now the other disk, /dev/hdb, has only one partition, which you called 'movies'? You can't see it? Then it is unmounted. (Verify this by typing yourhostname:/# df -h
[[..that will show you the disk partitions that are mounted right now, in "-h" = "human-readable" format {with G notation for Gigabytes, etc.}. IF you type just "df" it will show the results in block size only...]]
Okay, after typing that, you should verify that you do not see any of the directories in question, /dev/hda3, /dev/hda4/ or /dev/hdb1 in the "df -h" output.
Next step: Experimental mounting of these directories under /mnt. Now, John, you are going to have to test something here. Based only on the information that you've supplied, I don't know what file system these partitions were formatted with. You are going to have to test this - -- the likely candidates are "reiserfs" and "ext3"...try both: [[..I'm doing this example below for /dev/hda4, because its' the biggest partition of the three. Similar procedure for the others..]]
yourhostname:/# mkdir /mnt/hda3; mkdir /mnt/hda4; mkdir /mnt/hdb1 yourhostname:/# mount -t reiserfs -o ro /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4
It should _-not-_ be necessary to specify the file system type, let the kernel figure it out and same your self from pulling more hair out. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com