That worked. Thanks! I should've thought of looking in /proc.
The partition was actually hda5. hda3 is a 1mb partition (as is hdb3,
making my swap partition hdb5). Using VFAT also seems to have done the
trick.
I'm assuming these 1mb partitions are used to store filesystem info for
accessing data at larger addresses?... This is just a wild guess.
Also, do extended partitions always start at the third one or is it more a
matter of the physical location of the partition on the drive?
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Dan Brown wrote:
> From: David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > /dev/hda3 /mnt/mp3 auto user,umask=0222 0
> > 0
>
> Two things. First, try changing the type to vfat; this may cause it to
> recognize the filesystem correctly. Second, I'd be very surprised if this
> partition were actually /dev/hda3--generally, the third partition would be a
> logical drive within an extended partition, and Linux starts numbering those
> at hda5. I'd suspect this partition is actually /dev/hda6. I think you can
> cat /proc/partitions for more info (or run dmesg > output.txt and check the
> results of the partition check). Good luck!
>
>
>
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