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Re: Problems mounting second hardisk, partition



On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Wendell Buckner wrote:

> I've had this problem since I started fooling around with linux about
> four months ago and never fixed.  Since then I've added gnu c/c++,
> fvwm and network card (thanks to the debian users group).  Samba is
> hopefully on the way, but back to this nagging problem I have.  I
> can't seem to mount hdb2... I don't know why, but the following is the
> information on my second hard drive:
> 
> hdb1                primary    linux swap    150.4
> hdb2    boot      primary    linux            175.47
> 
> 
> I tried to use the following command to mount it:
> 
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 disk2
> 
> 
> The Hdb2 partition is set as linux extended and I tried to change
> that...cfdisk won't let me do it!! Anybody know the answer...ANYBODY?
> :)

Have you initalized the partition using mke2fs? And doese the
mountingpoint disk2 exist?

Martin

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