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<small>Hi <br>
After the installation of </small><small>Windows and L</small><small>inux
on my desktop.I partitioned the disk space under Windows and kept the
partitions as raw.<br>
Switched to Linux as Root,and viewed the disk </small><small>it showed
the partitions as FAT 16 while i kept them Raw,under windows.</small><br>
<small><i>[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l<br>
Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/hdc1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>
/dev/hdc2 1276 30400 233946562+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>
/dev/hdc5 1276 7649 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br>
/dev/hdc6 7650 14023 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br>
/dev/hdc7 14024 20397 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br>
/dev/hdc8 20398 26771 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br>
/dev/hdc9 26772 26784 104391 83 Linux<br>
/dev/hdc10 26785 28059 10241406 83 Linux<br>
/dev/hdc11 28060 28124 522081 82 Linux swap /
Solaris<br>
/dev/hdc12 28125 30400 18281938+ 6 FAT16<br>
<br>
</i><big><big> </big></big></small><small><big><big><small><small><small><small><small><small><small>More
over fo</small></small></small></small></small>rmatting them</small></small>
</big></big>under Linux [as shown below] ,</small><small>did not
altered their system type.<br>
</small><small></small><small><small><small><i>[root@localhost ~]#
mkdosfs -v -F32 /dev/hdc5<br>
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)<br>
/dev/hdc5 has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track,<br>
logical sector size is 512,<br>
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 102398246 sectors;<br>
file system has 2 32-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster.<br>
FAT size is 24988 sectors, and provides 3198382 clusters.<br>
Volume ID is 475c1a5c, no volume label.<br>
<br>
</i></small></small></small><small>They are still shown as F<small><small>AT</small></small>
16,the system shows some FAILURE messages at the boot time.<br>
<i><br>
[root@localhost log]# tail -10 dmesg<br>
EXT3 FS on hdc9, internal journal<br>
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.<br>
FAT: Unrecognized mount option "rw.defaults" or missing value<br>
FAT: Unrecognized mount option "rw.defaults" or missing value<br>
FAT: Unrecognized mount option "rw.defaults" or missing value<br>
FAT: Unrecognized mount option "rw.defaults" or missing value<br>
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended<br>
Adding 522072k swap on /dev/hdc11. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:522072k<br>
</i></small><small><br>
Which i think are logged at /var/log/ as i had entered entry for them
in /etc/fstab to be mounted at boot.</small><br>
<small><i><small>[root@localhost etc]# cat fstab<br>
LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults
1 1<br>
LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2<br>
devpts /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0<br>
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0<br>
proc /proc proc
defaults 0 0<br>
sysfs /sys sysfs
defaults 0 0<br>
LABEL=SWAP-hdc11 swap swap defaults
0 0<br>
<u>/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win1 vfat
rw.defaults,umask=0000,auto 0 0<br>
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/win2 vfat
rw.defaults,umask=0000,auto 0 0<br>
/dev/hdc7 /mnt/win3 vfat
rw.defaults,umask=0000,auto 0 0<br>
/dev/hdc8 /mnt/win4 vfat
rw.defaults,umask=0000,auto 0 0<br>
</u>/dev/hdc12 /mnt/win5 ext2
defaults 0 0<br>
<br>
</small></i><small>I've to manually mount them under Linux in order to
use them.<small></small><br>
<br>
Please help me out with these partitioning and mounting issues.thanking
you all.<br>
<br>
Thanks and Regards<br>
Saurabh<br>
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