# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 2003 MB, 2003795968 bytes 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1941 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes Disk identifier: 0x43591c34 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 195 196528+ 83 Linux /dev/sdc2 196 390 196560 83 Linux /dev/sdc3 391 1941 1563408 83 Linux # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 &>/dev/null # yes y | mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sdc2 &>/dev/null # mkfs.ntfs --fast /dev/sdc3 &>/dev/null # mkdir -p /var/tmp/mount/{sdc1,sdc2,sdc3} # cd /var/tmp/mount # for x in *; do mount -vv /dev/$x /var/tmp/mount/$x; done mount: no LABEL=, no UUID=, going to mount /dev/sdc1 by path mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdc1 I will try type ext3 /dev/sdc1 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc1 type ext3 (rw) mount: no LABEL=, no UUID=, going to mount /dev/sdc2 by path mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdc2 I will try type reiserfs /dev/sdc2 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc2 type reiserfs (rw) mount: no LABEL=, no UUID=, going to mount /dev/sdc3 by path mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdc3 I will try type ntfs /dev/sdc3 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc3 type ntfs (rw) # mount | grep sdc /dev/sdc1 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc1 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdc2 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc2 type reiserfs (rw) /dev/sdc3 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc3 type ntfs (rw) # for x in *; do ps faux >$x/testfile; done bash: sdc3/testfile: Permission denied # umount sdc3; mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc3 sdc3/ # for x in *; do ps faux >$x/testfile; done # md5sum */testfile 8dab540bbadc9091fbb10fa79a1f9f26 sdc1/testfile 60f6cb885e814e5979bbff0a3cd6bb3f sdc2/testfile 5aaa42efbdd1c313a4e6649a2c36b180 sdc3/testfile # umount -vv * Trying to umount /var/tmp/mount/sdc1 /dev/sdc1 umounted Trying to umount /var/tmp/mount/sdc2 /dev/sdc2 umounted Trying to umount /var/tmp/mount/sdc3 /dev/sdc3 umounted # dd if=/dev/sdc of=/mnt/data/tmp/sdc.iso 3913664+0 records in 3913664+0 records out 2003795968 bytes (2.0 GB) copied, 99.5312 s, 20.1 MB/s # losetup /dev/loop9 /mnt/data/tmp/sdc.iso # losetup -a /dev/loop9: [0806]:6471682 (/mnt/data/tmp/sdc.iso) kpartx -av /dev/loop9 add map loop9p1 (253:0): 0 393057 linear /dev/loop9 63 add map loop9p2 (253:1): 0 393120 linear /dev/loop9 393120 add map loop9p3 (253:2): 0 3126816 linear /dev/loop9 786240 # for x in 1 2; do mount -vv /dev/mapper/loop9p$x sdc$x; done mount: no LABEL=, no UUID=, going to mount /dev/mapper/loop9p1 by path mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/mapper/loop9p1 I will try type ext3 /dev/mapper/loop9p1 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc1 type ext3 (rw) mount: no LABEL=, no UUID=, going to mount /dev/mapper/loop9p2 by path mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/mapper/loop9p2 I will try type reiserfs /dev/mapper/loop9p2 on /var/tmp/mount/sdc2 type reiserfs (rw) # mount /dev/mapper/loop9p3 sdc3/ -t ntfs-3g # md5sum */testfile 8dab540bbadc9091fbb10fa79a1f9f26 sdc1/testfile 60f6cb885e814e5979bbff0a3cd6bb3f sdc2/testfile 5aaa42efbdd1c313a4e6649a2c36b180 sdc3/testfile # umount -v * /dev/mapper/loop9p1 umounted /dev/mapper/loop9p2 umounted /dev/mapper/loop9p3 umounted # kpartx -vd /dev/loop9 del devmap : loop9p3 del devmap : loop9p2 del devmap : loop9p1 # losetup -d /dev/loop9