after using cfdisk or fdisk to partition the drive, you need to make the
ext2 filesystem on each partition before mounting it.
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb5
Jyan-Min Fang
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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Stephen King wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add a drive to /dev/hdb. I thought it went fine, with
> cfdisk, making the desired partitions and so on, but none of them are
> recognised by mount. They are listed by cfdisk as native linux (83)
> partitions, but mounting them with, say...
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /disk2
>
> results in the usual error of ...
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Well, there are only five mounted filesystems, the disk doesn't have a bad
> superblock (it doesn't seem to have any according to fsck.ext2) and I don't
> think there are any bad options in that line.
>
> Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
>
> TIA
>
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