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Re: File system problem



Hello,
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 02:57:21PM +0200, Padiyath Sreekumaran wrote:
>    I have added the following line in my fstab for /dev/sda3
> 
> /dev/sda3 /scratch  ext2 defaults  1  2
> 
>    When I execute mount -a I get the following error:
> 
> lnsa14:/# mount -a
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
>   I also see the following output from dmesg:
> 
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sd(8,4)
> 
>    What is this error? How can I correct it without reinstalling the SW?

Are you sure you formatted this partition already? Do you expect any
data there? Otherwise simply use mke2fs on /dev/sda3.

Greetings

          Helge
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