Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: HELP

From: Hans Troost (fedora_at_troost.tweakdsl.nl)
Date: 10/29/04

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:03:46 +0200

    Hi all,

    About a week ago Michael Schwendt helped me out after I used qtparted to create a FAT32 partition on my disk, which damaged my configuration. I had to change my grub.conf, the fstab etc.... (could not boot anymore). After that everything seems to work fine again, but...

    now some problems come up with my non-linux partitions: I mount them (also have the NTFS-driver installed), see them but...

    I don't see "normal" windows files on it (for example /dev/hda2 is my WinXP boot partition, working fine, /dev/hda10 contains some file I placed there with fedora, before the "crash")
    The strange thing is: on the "non-linux" drives (both the NTFS and the VFAT ones) I see only the files that really are on /dev/hda9.
    To be honest: /dev/hda9 indeed is the new VFAT-partition I created with qtparted, causing the "crash"

    The WinXP installation still works fine and I placed a partition-specific named, empty text-file on each partition, using WinXP.
    The file on /dev/hda9 (called g-30.txt (G:-drive on windows, 30Gb) is shown on /dev/hda2, dev/hda5, dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 as the only file (which is correct for /dev/hda9, is is the first and only file on it)
    So it seems that the drives are no longer (as it was before the crash) correctly "mapped"

    So I think something more has gone wrong then I have repaired, following Michael Schwendt's instructions (thanks again Michael!!)

    This is my disk:

    fdisk -l output:
            Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
            255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
            Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
            
            Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
            /dev/hda1 * 1 192 1542208+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
            /dev/hda2 193 1404 9735390 7 HPFS/NTFS
            /dev/hda3 1405 19457 145010722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
            /dev/hda5 1405 5400 32097838+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
            /dev/hda6 5401 5413 104391 83 Linux
            /dev/hda7 5414 6718 10482381 83 Linux
            /dev/hda8 6719 6972 2040223+ 82 Linux swap
            /dev/hda9 15149 19065 31463271 b W95 FAT32
            /dev/hda10 19066 19457 3148708+ b W95 FAT32
            /dev/hda11 6973 10888 31455238+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
            
            Partition table entries are not in disk order

    This is /etc/fstab:
            LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
            LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
            none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
            none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
            none /proc proc defaults 0 0
            none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
            /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
            /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
            /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
            /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
            /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0
            /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 0 0
            /dev/hda9 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0
            /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0
            /dev/hda11 /mnt/windows vfat auto,rw,umask=000 0 0

    So this is the output of mount -l:
            /dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw) [/]
            none on /proc type proc (rw)
            none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
            none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
            usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
            /dev/hda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw) [/boot]
            none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
            /dev/hda2 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=000)
            /dev/hda5 on /mnt/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=000)
            /dev/hda9 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000)
            /dev/hda10 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000)
            /dev/hda11 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,umask=000)
            sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

    Can anybody help me out? 

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With kind regards,
Hans Troost
e-mail: fedora + chr(64) + troost.tweakdsl.nl
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