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Re: Mounting disks



On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +0000, James Hosken wrote:

> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/
> 
> and I get the error
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> I'm pritty sure that it is the right file systems, I was using Mandrake 8.1
> standard setup. I think the disk may be a bit dodgy. Is there any thing that I
> can do? I know there are several superblocks for this soer of thing.

Well, starting from the end:  how many filesystems do you have mounted?

Run fdisk or cfdisk on /dev/hdb and see what partition type /dev/hdb5
really is.

If it's ext2, run e2fsck on it.
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
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