Re: Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 02/22/05

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:44:12 -0600

    On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:54 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote:
    > mconsidine@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
    > 

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