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- From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: which /dev corresponds to my MSDOS disk?
- Keywords: mount,msdos,devices
- Message-ID: <690@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 05:25:18 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
- Lines: 17
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- Hi Linuxers:
-
- I've been playing a bit more with 0.97.1 and have gotten confused with
- all the different files in the /dev directory. i've read the FAQ and it
- doesn't seem to help much in my particular case.
-
- The basic problem is that my HD (a Seagate 1144A, 130Meg IDE) has been
- "Superstored". The C: is a compressed mounted filesystem, and D: (which
- is really C: until devswap swaps the drive letters) is a standard
- DR-DOS (MSDOS) file system.
-
- I know I shouldn't be able to read the compressed part of the drive with
- Linux (although it would be really nice :) but so far I am at a loss to
- find the proper /dev name to work with the uncompressed portion of the
- hard disk. I've tried /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hd1, /dev/hd2, etc.,
- and I just get either "bread failed" or "/dev/something faild or mount
- busy" errors.
-