how to mount a FAT32 DOS partition within the extended parti

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I have a 120GB hard drive and as you might imagine, I have chopped that up
in quiet a few partitions.

primary partition: 30GB Drive C: NTFS
extended partition: 30GB Drive D: NTFS
extended partition: 30GB Drive E: NTFS
extended partition: 25GB Drive F: FAT32
unpartitioned: 3GB

This first install of the PC was done with Windows XP Professional.
Afterwards I installed QNX on the unparitioned drive space and created a
boot floppy to start off QNX from.


When I start QNX I cannot see the FAT32 partition in the extended partition
space. Is there any way to mount that FAT32 partition in the extended
partition space without fooling with the hard disk, w/o repartitioning &
reformating & reinstalling?



Here are a few command outputs you might be interested in:

…/fdisk /dev/hd0 show

OS Start End Number Size Boot
name type Cylinder Cylinder Cylinders Blocks

  1. NTFS 7 0 3824 3824 61448562 30004 MB *
  2. Extd’d 15 3825 14660 10835 174080340 85000 MB
  3. QNZ 79 14661 15016 355 5719140 2792 MB

df
/pkgs/base/public/l 0 0 0 100% /
/dev/hd0t79 5719140 1316402 4402738 24% /
/boot/fs/qnxbase.qf 116950 115998 952 100% /pkgs/base/
/dev/hd0 51183027 51183027 0 100% /dev/hd0t11
/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7.2
/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7.1
/dev/fd0 0 0 0 100% (/drive1/)
/dev/cd0 0 0 0 100% (/fs/cd0/)
/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7
/dev/hd0 241254720 241254720 0 100%


I certainly appreciate your help! Thanks!
Wolfgang

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In article <b3eiv4$ltr$2@inn.qnx.com>, wkaml@phacor.removespam.com says…

I have a 120GB hard drive and as you might imagine, I have chopped that up
in quiet a few partitions.

primary partition: 30GB Drive C: NTFS
extended partition: 30GB Drive D: NTFS
extended partition: 30GB Drive E: NTFS
extended partition: 25GB Drive F: FAT32
unpartitioned: 3GB

This first install of the PC was done with Windows XP Professional.
Afterwards I installed QNX on the unparitioned drive space and created a
boot floppy to start off QNX from.

Why from floppy? :astonished:)

When I start QNX I cannot see the FAT32 partition in the extended partition
space. Is there any way to mount that FAT32 partition in the extended
partition space without fooling with the hard disk, w/o repartitioning &
reformating & reinstalling?



Here are a few command outputs you might be interested in:

./fdisk /dev/hd0 show

OS Start End Number Size Boot
name type Cylinder Cylinder Cylinders Blocks

  1. NTFS 7 0 3824 3824 61448562 30004 MB *
  2. Extd’d 15 3825 14660 10835 174080340 85000 MB
  3. QNZ 79 14661 15016 355 5719140 2792 MB

df
/pkgs/base/public/l 0 0 0 100% /
/dev/hd0t79 5719140 1316402 4402738 24% /
/boot/fs/qnxbase.qf 116950 115998 952 100% /pkgs/base/
/dev/hd0 51183027 51183027 0 100% /dev/hd0t11

It is your FAT32 partition. It does not matter is it extended or primary partition. It should be
automounted by diskboot during system startup something like /fs/hd0-dos. If it was not then you can
try to mount it manually

mount -t dos /dev/hd0t11 /fs/fat32

After that you should see your FAT32 partitions under /fs/fat32

ls /fs/fat32/




/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7.2
/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7.1

read-only driver for NTFS is available… for testing :astonished:)
Eduard.

/dev/fd0 0 0 0 100% (/drive1/)
/dev/cd0 0 0 0 100% (/fs/cd0/)
/dev/hd0 61448562 61448562 0 100% /dev/hd0t7
/dev/hd0 241254720 241254720 0 100%


I certainly appreciate your help! Thanks!
Wolfgang