Changing fstab and re-mounting disks

2006-08-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Here is one I can not explain: A user wanted to mount a vfat partition (/dev/hda4) to /mnt/hda4. His fstab had this line in it: /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 auto defualts,rw,users,owner,auto,uid=1000 0 0 (uid=username ID). And yet, root:root owned all the files/dirs, that was to be expected, I thi

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-30 Thread Jan-Marek Glogowski
Hi When you get "Input/Output" error, there may be a hardware error :-( Check your /var/log/messages. You can check the partition layout using gpart. http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/, or the deb. Look at man e2fsck, especially -b, -B and -n. HTH Jan-Marek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Morgan
James Hosken wrote: Quoting Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:46:13 +, James Hosken wrote: Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ and I get th

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:46:13 +, James Hosken wrote: > Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: >> >> > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ >> > >> > and I get the error >> > >> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad super

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-29 Thread James Hosken
Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ > > > > and I get the error > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, > >or too many mounted file systems > >

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ > > and I get the error > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, >or too many mounted file systems > I'm pritty sure that it is the right file systems, I was u