On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:58:00AM -0700, Ed Skinner wrote:
> But something I see about the single physical disk drive has left me
> confused: Booting a Knoppix CDROM and doing "cat /etc/fstab" I see a single
> partition, hda1.
Well, doesn't Knoppix build the fstab automatically? If there's no
filesystem on a partition, you can't mount it, so it wouldn't make sense
for it to be in the automatically-generated fstab.
> Similarly, "cat /proc/partitions" shows hda and hda1 with hda1
> *almost* the same as hda. I think that says there is one partition on
> the hard disk. Period.
You mean as far as size? I'm not sure what kernel Knoppix uses and/or
how it's changed from 2.4, but in 2.6, /proc/partitions shows only
major, minor, number of blocks, and name. If they look nearly the same,
it could just be that they have a near-identical number of blocks in
them.
My guess is that you have two partitions on the drive, but the
non-primary partition might not be formatted. Try doing "file -s
/dev/hda*" (and if those are symbolic links to files in
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/, do it on the targets as well) to see
what kinds of filesystems and such are on the partitions and
"fdisk -l /dev/hda" to see what the partition table says.
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