[lug] FS type question

[John Hernandez]

My conclusion is that the partition's Id label is incorrect.  I believe
that fdisk allows you to change this value more or less arbitrarily.

karl horlen wrote:
> I've just installed an WD IDE drive into a system.  It
> used to belong to someone else.
> 
> When I fdisk it it shows that the FS type is NTFS:
> 
> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id 
> System
> /dev/hda1               1       14593   117218241    7
>  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> However, when i try to mount the FS as ntfs it doesn't
> work:
> 
> 
> #mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hda1,
>        missing codepage or other error
> 
> If I mount the drive as ext3 it mounts!  And it
> actually works!  I duped about 80 G of drive data over
> my  network to another drive on a windows system
> yesterday (it was slow but it worked!).
> 
> # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
> # % df -Th /dev/hda1
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1     ext3    111G  105G  4.1G  97%
> /mnt/gentoo
> 
> 
> Any reason why this might be so?  
> 
> It looks like the partition id is just incorrect in
> the partition table.  Is there anyway to update/change
> it to reflect reality?  I believe this drive actually
> has an ext2 or ext3 fs because it was used on linux
> system prior to me obtaining it.  and of course, it
> works mounted as ext3 ;-)
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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