Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[Matt Considine]

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:13:24 -0700
> From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted.
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:22 -0500, Matt Considine wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I've checked the archives and cannot find commentary on this.  Hoping I 
>>didn't overlook something, here goes ...
>>
>>Running FC3 and Gnome, I am trying to get a third harddisk recognized. 
>>This one had a partition (11G) for the Win99 OS and the remaining 
>>partition was divided up into virtual drives.  Total size is 60G if I 
>>recall.
>>
>>The hardware brower recognizes this as
>>
>>     Device Start End   Size(MB)  Type
>>/dev/hdd
>>     /hdd1  1     1460  11453     fat32
>>            1     1460  11453     Free space
>>     /hdd2  1461  7296  45779     No filesystem
>>            7297  7298     10     Free space
>>
>>These are associated with subdirectories, respectively,
>>   /mnt/boot
>>   /mnt/root
>>
>>I can see the files on "boot" without a problem.  But I cannot
>>see the files on "root".
>>
>>Can someone either tell me how or point me to the instructions to get
>>these files recognized?  When I type (as root)
>>
>>   mount -t vfat /dev/hdd2 /mnt/root
>>
>>I get the following message :
>>   mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd2,
>>          or too many mounted file systems
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated, as well as everyone's patience if I 
>>missed something simple.
> 
> -----
> I guess I don't understand exactly what you are saying.
> 
> I can see that there is a partition /dev/hdd2 but I don't understand
> your comment about the rest of the the partition being divided into
> virtual drives.
> 
> Then you say that you called these things /mnt/boot and /mnt/root
> but /dev/hdd1 is fat32 so that hardly qualifies as a suitable partition
> for a linux boot and /dev/hdd2 - at least on appearance doesn't have a
> suitable filesystem at all. The free space leftovers seem to indicate
> some type of funky partitioning tool was used. I am gathering that if
> you did try to install a filesystem (sometimes called 'formatting' or
> 'initializing') that it didn't succeed.
> 
> If there is no valuable data on the /dev/hdd2, you could probably just
> from command line...
> 
> mkfs -t [ext3|ext2|vfat] /dev/hdd2
> 
> I always had problems creating vfat partitions larger than 32mb. Perhaps
> that is just me.
> 
> if you feel that you had indeed created a filesystem on /dev/hdd2 like
> in Windows or something else and indeed have valuable data on that
> drive, then re-examine by booting Windows or the tool you used to create
> it and see if it's still there.
> 
> Craig

(apologies for the format of the prior response...)

It appears that the other harddisk was formatted using "EZ-Drive".  A 
Google search doesn't seem to show anything discussing FC3's ability to
co-exist with this.  Other than putting it into another system, booting, 
  etc, etc, are there ideas?  (Installing an NTFS driver was - 
predictably  - of no help).

Matt