[NTLUG:Discuss] Mounting a Logical drive

[MadHat]

At 12:12 PM 4/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes, it is possible. ... Or should be.
>
>The first four drive partitions (hdX1-4) are ... My memory is failing
>me. Anyway, extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. My drive, for
>instance, is set up like this:
>hda1 is a DOS partition (with Win95)
>hda2 is Linux native (root file system)
>hda3 is Linux swap
>hda4 is the last partition where it would appear my extended
>partitions live.
>hda5 was formerly a dos partition (DOS drive d:) but is now Linux
>native
>hda6 is Linux native (/home)
>
>hda5 and hda6 are extended partitions.
>
>To get an idea of how your drive is set up, you can type
>fdisk /dev/hdb
>or /dev/hda as the case me be.
>
>You can then type p (folowed by enter) tp print your partition table
>to the screen. That should give you an idea of what partition Linux
>has your logical DOS drive labeled as. I would suspect it may be
>/dev/hda5

fdisk -l /dev/hd?
is usually safer for those not familiar with fdisk and if you don't specify 
the drive, it will use the default (usually the one root is mounted on if I 
remember properly)

[root at madhat ~/]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1826 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        18    136048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            19      1826  13668480    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            19       574   4203328+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           575      1129   4195768+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1130      1407   2101648+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1408      1477    529168+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1478      1512    264568+  82  Linux swap




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