Mounting a Win '95 Ext'd (LBA) partition

"John Strazzarino" <jstrazza RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I installed Fedora 7 over an old copy of Windows. What would I put in the
>mount command to have access to this partition? According to FDISK, it is
>a type f partition which is defined at Win '95 Ext'd (LBA) partition.
>
> I though of using mount -t /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4
>
> but it doesn't work.

Use :
mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4

You can issue this command when you only want to mount the drive at odd
times or you can add this entry in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to mount it
permanently.

If you want to access the partition permanently you can also add an entry
into the /etc/fstab file as :

/dev/hda4 /<mount directory name> vfat defaults 0 0

( the last 2 entries are zeros )



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In article <PGeSi.11422$4V6.7634@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>,
John Strazzarino <jstrazza.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
:I installed Fedora 7 over an old copy of Windows. What would I put in the
:mount command to have access to this partition? According to FDISK, it is a
:type f partition which is defined at Win '95 Ext'd (LBA) partition.
:
:I though of using mount -t /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4
:
:but it doesn't work.
:
:Any ideas?

You don't mount the extended partition itself. You mount the logical
partitions contained within the extended partition. In Linux, those
will be partition 5 and higher.

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