[COLUG] HD Partition Problem

[Robert Foreman]

It's not a problem. It's an/the extended partition. Don't mount it.
Don't delete it. Just leave it be.

http://www.linfo.org/extended_partition.html

You'll notice how how sdb5 and sdb6 start and end within the start and
end cylinders of sdb3

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Stephen P. Molnar
<s.molnar at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have just upgraded my Linux machine to OpenSUSE 10.3 64 bit and have a
>  partition problem on one of my hard drives.  Rather than risk really messing
>  it up by plunging ahead I would like to ask for help.
>
>  Here is the problem, according to Krusader/Mountman:
>
>  Could not mount device.
>  The reported error was:
>  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb3,
>  missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>  (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>  instead of some logical partition inside?)
>
>  fdisk /dev/sdb gives me
>
>  Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
>  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
>  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>  Disk identifier: 0x000bdd37
>
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sdb1               1         262     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>  /dev/sdb2   *         263        2873    20972857+  83  Linux
>  /dev/sdb3            2874       30401   221118660    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>  /dev/sdb5            2874        5484    20972826   83  Linux
>  /dev/sdb6            5485       30401   200145771   83  Linux
>
>  the problem is with dev/sdb3.  What should the fstab line to mount the
>  partition read?  Or alternately, how do I reformat the partition for ext3?
>  The current partition is a hold over from a MS Win machine.
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>
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