Re: [tlug] missing parition /dev/hdb2??

[TLUG MAIL <tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:28:15PM +0900, Nguyen Vu Hung wrote:
> I have just installed a new IDE harddisk. When i boot into windows,
> I get 3 new drives which contains *alots* of files. But when I boot into
> Linux, I can only mount /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb5.

Based on the other output provided, this is the correct behavior.  
/dev/hdb2 is an extended partition and thus not mountable.

> [root@example.com vuhung]# cat /proc/partitions 
> major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
> running use aveq
> 
1>    3    64    2062368 hdb 48 218 328 100 0 0 0 0 -2 581460 -1162820
2>    3    65    2048256 hdb1 16 15 51 40 0 0 0 0 0 40 40
3>    3    66          1 hdb2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4>    3    69    7389868 hdb5 16 15 51 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20

Something is very strange about your output here.  Do you realize that 
your total harddisk size is about 1/5th of the space you are attempting
to use on it?  Your harddisk parameters are out of whack womewhere.
Totals from line 2 + 4 block column are larger than line 1's.

> [root@example.com vuhung]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> [root@example.com vuhung]# 

Another symptom of trouble with /dev/hdb's parameters?
 
> [root@example.com vuhung]# cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdb2               /mnt/hdb2               vfat    defaults        0
> 0

Delete this.

Michael