The SCO filesystem is probably the HTFS journalling filesystem.  I believe 
that it is proprietary as I have never seen a way to mount this type under 
Linux.  Can you copy the data to a different FS type?  How about taring the 
data somewhere else then untar it on the Linux box?

-Jeff

At 11:41 AM 7/2/02, you wrote:
>I am trying to mount an SCO 5.0.6 harddisk onto /hd in my Linux RedHat 7.2
>hard disk.
>When I try: mount -t sysv /dev/hdb /hd
>I get:  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
>                         or too many mounted file systems
>
>So, after seeing some of the emails here, I ran: (thanks Emmanuel)
>fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>and got:
>Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>Device  Boot            Start           End             Blocks          Id 
>              System
>/dev/hdb4       *                   1           1023            8217216 
>      63      GNU HURD or SysV
>
>Ok, so tried: mount -t sysv /dev/hdb4 /hd
>and got:        mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb4,
>                 or too many mounted file systems
>
>I don't have anything else mounted, so can't be that, but not sure what is
>wrong. I am guessing SysV and sysv are not the same, and when I try mount -t
>SysV, it says try sysv...
>In the man pages for SCO, it says their filesystem is htfs, and that type is
>not listed in the Linux man pages for mount, and when I try mount -t htfs it
>says this fs type not supported by the kernel. Also tried hpfs, which is
>listed in the Linux man pages for mount, but again got not supported by
>kernel error.
>
>Anyhelp would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jayson Hill
>
>
>
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