Re: Mounting disks

[James Hosken <james@jamesho.co.uk>]

Quoting Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>:

> 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.


Thanks for the reply, it is hdb8 that I'm really intrested in rather than hdb5
Here's he result from fdisk

Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         117         510     3164805    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2             511        5005    36106087+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5             511         573      506016   83  Linux
/dev/hdb6             574         604      248976   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb7             605         986     3068383+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb8             987        5005    32282586   83  Linux


Here is the result from fsck /dev/hdb8

fsck 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003)
e2fsck 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003)
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while tr
ying to open /dev/hdb8
Could this be a zero-length partition?



I have run fsck on hdb5 and hdb7 as well and they come back with the same error.
Any surgestions?
Thanks