Re: Can't access /dev/hdd
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 21:09, Phil Beder wrote:
> When we installed, we put a 20 gig HD as the secondary
> drive on the secondary ide controller (in hindsight I
> could have thought of better ways to do this but the set
> of hands I had was in a hurry and didn't give me much of a
> choice). I'm now trying to mount this drive,
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /mnt
>
> and the error message is:
> VFS: can't find ext2 File System on dev ide1(22,65)
> mount: wrong file system type, bad option, bad superblock
> on /dev/hdd.
>
> A querry with fdisk gives:
> fdisk -l /dev/hdd
> /dev/hdd1
> boot*
> start 1 -- end 2637
> blocks 19935688
> id = 83
> system = linux
>
> I believe at install I partitioned and formated is the
> drive bad?
You believe? Did you really format the partition? You might want to try
mount -t auto /dev/hdd1 /mnt
in case it's not an ext2 formatted partition. If it really is a bad
drive, try to run fsck over it.
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