[98271] in RedHat Linux List
Re: no luck mounting Internal Zip drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Sat Nov 7 21:50:02 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:45:35 -0600
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On Sat, 07 Nov 1998, John Beck sniveled:
>If I do a on a msdos formatted iomega zip disk
>mount /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
>it appears to mount it, but then when I cd in to
>/mnt/zip all I get is lost+found
>mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/zip
>gives an error about trying to mount an extended
>partition instead of a logical drive
Well, mount /dev/hdc doesn't get it to a partition (i.e. /dev/hdc4 if
it's been formatted by m$-do$ or 'Doze). Getting lost+found says it's
an ext2 partition. Something doesn't jibe.
If it's ext2, you'll get an error. If you're trying to mount /dev/hdc
you'll get an error without giving it a partition since /dev/hdc is a
block device and not the actual partition.
Try mount /dev/hdc4 and see what happens (if you have it in fstab). Or
try mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip. If you still get an error, you
may have an ext2 parition instead.
Then try mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc<1-4> /mnt/zip. If no error (after
getting the partition number right [1-4]) then it's ext2 not vfat.
--
I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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