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daroat

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 3

[Solved] Problems mounting disk

Hi everyone, my name is Darío and i'm new to Arch. I've been looking for this problem for a couple of days and i'm not able to solve it.

I have two disks who were NTFS. Then, i installed Arch in one of them, and left a partition in that disk still NTFS. Then, my idea was to have a boot partition, a / partition and the swap partition, besides the other two backup NTFS partitions.

The issue is the next: Arch recognize only one NTFS partition, and the other one, like Extended.

I've tried to look for some extra info with gPart but it says something like "seek failure" after the "sda2".

If it is possible, i really want to access to that partition, because i have a lot of info that i don't want to lose.

I left you some data guys:

/etc/fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
tmpfs           /tmp    tmpfs   nodev,nosuid    0       0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda3 /mnt/win ntfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 1
/dev/sda4 /mnt/musik ntfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 1
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

fdisk:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c5ea5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63       64259       32098+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2           64260   159943139    79939440   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       163842048   488394751   162276352    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       159943140   163842047     1949454    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       159943203   163842047     1949422+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

The way i try to mount the partitions is: mount -t ntfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/backup and mount -t ext /dev/sda4 /mnt/backup2 (the weird thing is that system doesn't recognize ext like a filesystem).

Please guys, i'm new to Arch and i would like to recover this files, i've looked for info around the internet with no success.

Thanks, and sorry my english, i'm from Argentina.

Bytes!

Last edited by daroat (2012-02-27 09:26:07)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Problems mounting disk

What errors are you getting when trying to mount?
Do the /mnt/backup and /mnt/backup2 mountpoints exist?

daroat

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Problems mounting disk

What errors are you getting when trying to mount?
Do the /mnt/backup and /mnt/backup2 mountpoints exist?

Karol, when i try to mount sda4, in first place, it would be an ntfs partition, and i don't know why Arch recognize it like Extended.
In second place, if i use mount -t ntfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/backup2 or mount -t ext /dev/sda4 /mnt/backup2 i have errors (first one says that the filesystem is incorrect, and the second one says that ext is not a correct filesystem type).

Both mountpoints exists, and /mnt/backup works with any problem.

Thanks, bytes!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Problems mounting disk

/dev/sda4       159943140   163842047     1949454    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       159943203   163842047     1949422+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Are you sure you have an NTFS partition there? It looks like it's just swap - they both start almost at the same block and end at the exact same one.

Did you create the /etc/fstab yourself?
You say you have two disks - do you mean two physical drives? If yes, the other one should be e.g. /dev/sdb.

daroat

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Problems mounting disk

/dev/sda4       159943140   163842047     1949454    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       159943203   163842047     1949422+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Are you sure you have an NTFS partition there? It looks like it's just swap - they both start almost at the same block and end at the exact same one.

Did you create the /etc/fstab yourself?
You say you have two disks - do you mean two physical drives? If yes, the other one should be e.g. /dev/sdb.

Karol, i added to /etc/fstab this two lines:

/dev/sda3 /mnt/win ntfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 1
/dev/sda4 /mnt/musik ntfs auto,user,exec,rw 0 1

I wrote /mnt/backup and /mnt/backup2 instead of /mnt/win and /mnt/musik, my bad.
Yes, i have two physical drives, so thanks to you, i solved the problem.

Looked for it, and yes, i did mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/musik and worked!

Thanks a lot!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Problems mounting disk

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