Re: unable to mount 2nd FAT16 partition
Forgive me if this is obvious, but is your first one mounted on /mnt? You
can of course have only one filesystem mounted at a given mountpoint.
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
(Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, William Staniewicz wrote:
> I have no problem mounting my initial FAT16 partition,
> but am unable to mount the 2nd one. The 2nd one was added
> recently following the installation of Windows95 and Debian
> Linux (in that order).
>
> I use this to mount:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /mnt
>
> This is what I get back:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Below is my partitioning:
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 69 278176+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 124 250 512064 39 Unknown
> /dev/hda3 70 123 217728 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda4 251 782 2145024 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 251 266 64480+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 267 782 2080480+ 83 Linux
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> -Bill
> The "unknown" partition is a Plan 9 one. Also, when in
> Windows I am able to access the second partition.
>
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