Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[Jeff Vian]

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
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > 
> > Sorry for creating any confusion.
> > 
> > The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3
> > system already installed.  The data is in a Windows
> > filesystem
> > structure and I don't want to have to put it into another
> > system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc.  I just want to
> > get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can
> > pull
> > the large files off that I need.  Once that is accomplished,
> > repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be
> > perfectly fine.
> > 
> > Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well-
> > running FC3 installation.  Now you need more diskspace. 
> > Someone
> > hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure
> > on
> > it.  The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. 
> > You
> > are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a
> > number of files over to the FC3 installation.
> > 
> > That's as clear as I can make the situation.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Matt
> > 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
Now you are tickling some long buried memories.

Is EZ-Drive one of the disk compression tool that were popular some
years ago?   If so, it _will_ only work in Winblows and the only option
I know of is to put it in a windows machine and use the LAN to move the
files.

I have not used those tools since drives of 6GB and larger came
available, but I know they had the driver for the compression on the
boot sector so it will work with Winblows, but not on other OSes.
The actual data was in a compressed file, not written to a filesystem.

> -- 
> Nigel Wade
>