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On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi, List ! Czerno with questions again, being unable to access one
> disk partition in BL3 :
>
> My second hard disk (hdb) has two data partitions, one primary which
> under DOS/Win is seen as "D:", and one logical "E:" inside an
> extended. Both data part's are type 06, aka "BIG DOS" FAT16, 400 odd
> megabytes each. Quite standard a scheme I assume.
>
> The problem is I can't seem to have BL3 "see" the second DOS
> (logical) partition at all.
>
> I created the mount points /WinD and /WinE;
> The primary (DOS D:) I can mount thusly :
>
> # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /WinD
>
> I assumed the logical (E:) part would be /hdb5, but
>
> # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /WinE
>
> yields : Mounting failed : No such file or directory.

cd /dev
mknod hdb5 b 3 69

I had the same problem when using large drives with logical partitions.

I asked Steven to include hda-hdd 5 and 6 (if not also 7 and 8).

> Same with type msdos instead of vfat.
> Same when varying the number (hdb6 ?) etc...

You will see that here is not /dev/hdb5 or /dev/hdb6 in BL3.



> Another question related to mounted partitions :
>
> /DOS is mounted at init time as type MSDOS. May I "umount" it and
> re-mount as VFAT without risks ?
>
> Finally, are all mounts automatically undone at halt/reboot,
> including those I make on the fly ? Or only mounts from fstab ?



> Cheers,
>
> --
> Czerno

BL3
less inittab

::shutdown:/sbin/umount -a -r 2>/dev/null

Does this umount all partitionss at shutdown?

BL2
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -rf now

What does this do?

I exit by typing
umount -a
shutdown -h now

Sometimes I am not allowed to umount -a.   ???

Sindi