[SATLUG] Mounting issues

[Charles Hogan]

Looking at the block numbers and id, it looks as though the extended 
partitions are physically located in /dev/sda2.  Try mounting /dev/sda5.

phn1x wrote:
> So, I recently departed with my last windows machine. I'm now at 10 physical
> machines, between them running ubuntu, open and free bsd, solaris and now
> fedora core 6. On the new FC 6 machine, I'm trying to mount my old drives (
> I was lazy and didnt feel like spending days transfering data)
> 
> I installed the ntfs-3g shiz and had no problem mounting up the ntfs
> parition to /mnt/d
> 
> However, my 300gb sata hard drive is being well... It's just not
> coorporating.
> 
> Heres the situation
> 
> sudo /sbin/fdisk -lu /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *          63    38909429    19454683+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2        40965750   390700799   174867525    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda3        38909430    40965749     1028160   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda5        40965813   390700799   174867493+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> [phn1x at localhost tmp]$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/storage -t vfat -r -o
> umask=0222
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> As you see, /dev/sda2 is the drive in question, but it shows up as a W95
> Ext'd
> 
> I figure, ok I will try to mount it as a vfat but, as you can see above it
> didn't work out. attempting -ntfs-3g doesnt work out well either.. Am I just
> making a stupid error? I've been googling for two hours, plenty of hits but
> nothing significant.
> 
> Thanks in advance