Forgive me if my terminology is not clear, but the extended partition is the rest of your disk, and contains all of the other partitons, as you can see from the start and end blocks. You need this because you can only have 4 primary partitions on a drive, so the short answer is no you cannot mount anything there. Dovber Shapiro
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:43:47 -0800 boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a disk that fdisk lists as follows: > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 63 506016 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 64 4865 38572065 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 64 94 248976 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda6 2424 4865 19615333+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 95 1200 8883913+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 1201 2423 9823716 83 Linux > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > > Command (m for help): q > ----------------------------------------------------------- > The mount is: > > # mount > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > none on /dev type devfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /home type ext2 (rw) > none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount > (ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1) > none on /mnt/floppy type supermount > (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /var type ext2 (rw) > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Devices are linked as: > > #ls -l /dev/hda* > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 32 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda1 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda2 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda5 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda6 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda7 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Nov 3 19:13 /dev/hda8 -> > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 > # > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > The fstab is: > > # cat /etc/fstab > /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > none /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > I am running out of disk space and wonder what's up with > /dev/hda2. Is is free for me to mount say a var2 on? Or? > And how would I do that? > > TIA, > > BobLQ > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
