Thanks! I didn't know about this. I didn't see anything on it in the man
or HOWTO's. Everything seems to assume that the installation software will
take care of it for you.
At 07:31 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
>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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