Re: external hard drive
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:43:05PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5"
> SP1604N) using debian testing/unstable, Kernel 2.4.22-xfs.
>
> I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions -
> worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
> /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
> /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0
>
> and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1
> 2 and 3 respectively
>
> but when I do:
> mount /dev/sda1 I get
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised.
>
> after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an error:
> Unable to open /dev/sda3
>
Did you load the required modules? since its sda, I am assuming
usb-storage, but no experience with that, so it may be something
else. The hotplug package may help.
> any idea how to solve that? TIA Martin
>
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