- RH 6.2, Mounting a HPFS partition
- Posted by W. Watson on November 30th, 2003
I tried mounting with mount -t hpfs /dev/hdb1 ./mount-hdb and got a message back with
"Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on hdb1, or too many fs mounted". The command
looks right to me. According to the man page, hpfs is read only. If I want to pass a file
back up to W2000, which coexists on the system, do I have to create a DOS partition instead?
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- Posted by Dances With Crows on November 30th, 2003
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:54:33 GMT, W. Watson staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
Does hdb1 actually have an HPFS filesystem on it? That filesystem was
used by OS/2; partition type 0x07 is also used by NTFS. If you have a
partition of type 0x07 and you know for sure that the machine has never
had OS/2 on it, you want to use -t ntfs. Also, which version of which
distro are you using? HPFS isn't as popular as some other filesystems,
and support for it may be broken in really old or really new kernels.
You also need to have HPFS support built in to the kernel or available
as a module; if hpfs.o is not available under /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/fs/ , then you need to build it.
'Doze2K can only read FAT32 and NTFS natively. There's a program called
explore2fs.exe that works reasonably well for reading ext2/3 partitions,
but it's userspace-only.
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- Posted by W. Watson on November 30th, 2003
Ah, wrong machine and wrong format. FAT32 on Win2000. Changing to vfat file type got me
going. Thanks.
Dances With Crows wrote:
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