On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:08 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> >
>> > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16.
>> >
>> > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get:
>> >
>> > % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/
>> > mount: special device /dev/sda16 does not exist
>> >
>> > why the device not exist? [...]
>>
>> If you look at the device numbers for sda16 and sdb under linux I
>> think you will see why. [...]
1st of all, thank you both for the reply.
I'm using Testing (kernel 2.6.17 + udev), I don't see /dev/sdb in my
system.
> It is part of the SCSI Standard. Even if it is an SATA drive which is an
> IDE drive in Windows, partition 16 is actually partition 0 on the next
> drive.
Both of you has hinted that sda16 should have device numbers as sdb. So I
gave it a try, as follows:
$ ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda1*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 12-04 09:28 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 12-04 09:28 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 12-04 14:28 /dev/sda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 12-04 14:28 /dev/sda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 12 12-04 09:28 /dev/sda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 12-04 14:28 /dev/sda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 14 12-04 14:29 /dev/sda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 12-04 14:29 /dev/sda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 12-04 16:49 /dev/sda16
^^^^^
But that does not work:
$ mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/
mount: /dev/sda16: can't read superblock
So is there any workaround so that I can access it? How come my Win2k can
accesse the sda16 without any problem?
FYI, I tried to created /dev/sda16 as the following, and it didn't work
either.
$ ls -l /dev/sda1*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 12-03 12:31 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 12-03 17:31 /dev/sda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 12-03 17:31 /dev/sda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 12 12-03 12:31 /dev/sda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 12-03 17:31 /dev/sda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 14 12-03 17:31 /dev/sda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 12-03 17:31 /dev/sda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 12-03 18:08 /dev/sda16
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