Hi All, I am trying to access a logical partition on a second disk in this machine. It is a Linux partition (ext3). I am having trouble because, first of all the device does not seems to exist, second of all, I cannot even get into an interactive fdisk to see if it's there at all. I have been able to access this partition from other linux installs on this machine.
I am not sure if this is normal behavior or not, but whenever I try to use 'fdisk' it just prints out some partition information, and does not put me into an interactive mode, where I can view things in detail, and perhaps change things. su-2.05b# fdisk /dev/ad1 ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2586 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2586 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 63, size 151137 (73 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 9/ head 239/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86) start 151200, size 680400 (332 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 10/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 54/ head 239/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 831600, size 483840 (236 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 55/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 86/ head 239/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 5,(Extended DOS) start 1315440, size 37784880 (18449 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 87/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 su-2.05b# The reason I wanted to view this disk with fdisk is because for some reason I am unable to mount one of the extended partitions on this disk (I think it's ext3 if that matters, which I don't think it does). The device /dev/ad1s4 is an extended partition (as you can see above), that contains more logical partitions. The problem is I can mount /dev/ad1s5,6,7 but not 8, (which is the one I need to mount) the final logical partition on that disk. The partition setup on that disk is like this (forgive me for using linux device names, but thats the way I can view the partition table currently). hdb1 / hdb2 <swap> hdb3 /tmp hdb4 <extended> hdb5 /var hdb6 /usr hdb7 /usr/local hdb8 /home In FreeBSD, I try to mount it (first the /usr/local partition <hda7>, then /home <hda8>). su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s7 /mnt/debian/ su-2.05b# umount /mnt/debian/ su-2.05b# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad1s8 /mnt/debian/ mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1s8: No such file or directory su-2.05b# ls /dev/ad1* /dev/ad1 /dev/ad1e /dev/ad1s1a /dev/ad1s1f /dev/ad1s4 /dev/ad1a /dev/ad1f /dev/ad1s1b /dev/ad1s1g /dev/ad1s5 /dev/ad1b /dev/ad1g /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1h /dev/ad1s6 /dev/ad1c /dev/ad1h /dev/ad1s1d /dev/ad1s2 /dev/ad1s7 /dev/ad1d /dev/ad1s1 /dev/ad1s1e /dev/ad1s3 su-2.05b# I have been able to access this partition just fine under any of the other Linux installs I have on this machine (3 Linux distro's, 1 FreeBSD, 1 Win98), so I know the partition table is not corrupt. Any Ideas? -- Nick Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message