Mounting EISA partitions on install

[Neil Wilson]

Setting up Ubuntu Gutsy mounts the EISA tools partition (marked as Compaq diagnositcs in fdisk) as a separate DOS partition.

Windows XP on the other hand doesn't allow you to mount these partitions from Windows or do anything much with them - despite the fact that they are essential FAT32 DOS partitions.

What is happening on my laptop (Lenovo N100 running rescue/recovery 3 in the EISA partition) is that the EISA tools are making strange alterations to the partition's boot sector, which is then picked up by Gutsy's fsck as an error it can't fix (boot sector backup != original)

Is it wise to automatically add EISA partitions to the /etc/fstab?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

Last time I did an install it was. Obviously I don't rebuild my laptop
from scratch every day.

On 12/7/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Mounting EISA partitions on install
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We no longer automatically add partitions to /etc/fstab for automatic mounting due to a variety of issues such as this one (see also bug 106209), so this bug should no longer be present as of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.