[ltp] FC3 wrongly mounted an NTFS partn for a FAT32 partn

[Kelvin KAN]

Hi,

My config is T42 dual-booting XP & FC3.  I used to create a FAT32 partn 
for exchange data between  MS & Linux back in  RH 7.3 (mounting the XP 
native NTFS for read/write was not considered reliable enough that time).

Below is the output of Linux fdisk print:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
 
Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1   *           1        4172    31540288+   7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2            4173        9661    41496840    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda3            9707       10337     4770360   12  Compaq diagnostics

/dev/hda5            4173        6204    15361888+   b  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

/dev/hda6            6205        8236    15361888+   7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda7            8237        9591    10233373+  83  Linux

/dev/hda8            9592        9661      529168+  82  Linux swap


When I "mount -t  vfat /dev/hda5 /vfat_hda5",  but then "ls -l 
/vfat_hda5" actually showed the content of /dev/hda6 i.e. my NTFS 
partn!!!!!  So I thought might be fdisk was reporting the wrong partn 
no, but then trying all other hdaN didn't help.


Hda5 & hda6 are in the same "Logical" partn (hda2) created by PartnMagic 
8.0,  whereas I managed to preserver the IBM RescueRecovery partn (hda3) 
at the ending cylinders of the 80GB drive.

Any clues?  F

Thanks and a Progressive Chinese New Year to you all!
-
kelvin.