Re: external hard drive
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On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:43, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> 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
Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: formating
the filesystems with mkfs.
Cheers,
FJP
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