----- Original Message ----- From: Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] mounting fat32 partition
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, kishor bhagwat wrote:
I did something pretty weird..i changed the partition type of hda2 to FAT16, (it was FAT32 formatted), blanked out its first 512 bytes, and then mounted it.. voila, it works now!! IO works alright..everything's hunky dory..but i aint going to explain what i
I could try an explanation. Windows FAT partitions are not identified by the partition id in the partition table, but by the first 512 bytes on the partition.
I'm in a soup again...today morning, i find that my /dev/hda2 is no longer visible in Windows.. so i boot into linux, and that the partition type for /dev/hda2 is suddenly Hidden FAT16!! how did that happen? anyway, i changed it to FAT16 again, but Windows refuses to see it... so i try FAT32,,that doesnt work either..so i make it FAT16, then blank out first 512 bytes, now Windows shows it as drive letter D: (earlier it was E:) , but i still cant access it(says drive not ready) Also, i'm unable to mount it from Linux, i either get : fatfs:invalid logical cluster sector 0 OR segmentation fault
it means i've been effectively blocked out from this partition..i cant try most stunts becoz i dont have a backup. I'm at a total loss as to how/why this happened... Somebody please make some sense outta this and help!
partition table : /dev/hda1 Win95 FAT32 C: /dev/hda2 FAT16 E: (FAT32 formatted ) /dev/hda3 Linux RedHat root /dev/hda5 Linux /boot /dev/hda6 swap /dev/hda7 Linux LFS root /dev/hda8 Linux SuSE root
regards, kishor
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