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

[Eben King]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Kelvin KAN wrote:

> I've been using that NTFS partn (/dev/hda6) for years and could not have 
> mistaken about it's format.  Furthermore, fdisk of FC3 also reported it 
> to be NTFS (requoted here):
> 
> /dev/hda6            6205        8236    15361888+   7  HPFS/NTFS

That's what the partition table says about it.  It could differ from the 
actual filesystem used.  Try "file - < /dev/hda6" and see what it comes up 
with.

> My guess is there are bugs in FC3 filesystem services that either:
> 1.  Ignore my "-t vfat" option

When it's mounted, run "mount | grep hda6" and see what filesystem type it's 
mounted as.

> 2.  Cannot distinguish between two partn's (my fat32 & ntfs) within the 
> same logical partn.

You should get garbage data in your filesystem (unless NTFS and FAT32 are 
VERY close, which I don't believe is the case) if that happens.  I once had 
a UMSDOS filesystem wrongly recognized as FAT32; I couldn't use 
autodetection on it.

In Windows (You DO have Windows?  Otherwise why use NTFS?), get properties 
for the filesystem and see what it says.

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