On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:57, David Smith wrote: > Hi, > I'm not sure what to do about a problem I'm having. I have 3 HD on a > computer. One is a NTFS for windows 2000, one is a 40 gig with 35 gigs > for space and partition that I am trying to set up as a new /home dir, > and the third is the linux drive. Here is my problem when I try to mount > it so that I can copy my /home files there: > mount /dev/hdd2 /mnt/small -t ext3 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd2, > or too many mounted file systems > > Well I have repartitioned it using fdisk: > Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 * 1 65535 33029608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdd2 65536 75224 4883256 83 Linux > > >From this can anyone possibly tell me what I've done wrong. If you need > more info please let me know.
Have you made a filesystem on the partition? Fdisk alone is not sufficient.... "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd2"; mount /dev/hdd2 /mnt/small" (I may be wrong on the ext3 option. If so, shoot me.) > David -- -- ttfn, Nick. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
