Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[C. Linus Hicks]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:54 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote:
> mconsidine at netreach.net wrote:
> 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
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
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> According to installations instructions I found for EZ-Drive, you cannot use 
> a EZ-Drive formatted disk with anything but Windows. From the partition 
> table you showed earlier that would seem to be the case. /dev/hdd1 shows as 
> FAT32 and may be ok, but the rest of the partition table doesn't make a lot 
> of sense.
> 
> What do you get if you run 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd' from a command line?

Have you considered using dd to make an image copy of the hdd2 partition
to a file? If it works, that should remove the issue of the EZ-Drive
partition table, but you would still have the issue of a vfat partition
larger than 32gb, so this may not be of any value. However, if you then
had a way of transferring the image to a windows system, although I
don't know of any way to loopback mount a filesystem under windows so
you would probably have to get it onto a physical drive.

-- 
C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>