Ok, what does your /etc/fstab look like. Let's start there. Ric
On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 20:37, Nelson Bartley wrote: > Now this all makes sense except for one tiny little detail. > I had already changed the file system type to ext3, and have files on it > now. with the ability to set permissions and ownership as well. I've got > about 2GBs of data on there I can access once it's mounted. > > even though I've already changed and formated it in the "mounting > points" CC, could it still be remenant of the Vfat filesystem? I've got > it setting permissions independantly, and running my programs fine. > > NB... (I just wish it would mount properly w/ mount...) > > On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:46, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:51, Nelson Bartley wrote: > > > Interesting situation. > > > > > > When I originally partitioned my hard drive I created it in the Disk > > > Drake utility during setup. It was created w/ a 5GB win drive, followed > > > by a 250MB /boot, 250MB swap, and 4GB ext3 / drive, and the other 8GB > > > was created into another win partition. Well after having decided to > > > take the 1 month challenge I decided I no longer needed my 8GB partition > > > in Win form, so I changed the SOB over to ext3, which worked perfectly. > > > > > > Now here's the situation. When trying to mount the drive through mount > > > and linuxconf I get an error message which sais: > > > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too > > > many mounted file systems. > > > > > > Now, if I go into the "mount points" in the Control Centre I can mount > > > the partition fine. It sais its saving to the fstab, however I'm not > > > sure. > > > > > > If anyone has any ideas, or could suggest a way to tell what arguments > > > the Control Centre is passing to the mount command I would greatly > > > appreciate. > > > > Heh heh.. oops. > > Before you can do that, You need to change the partition type. > > I've always done that with "fdisk" (careful in there! You can blow up > > the system doing this). > > > > Right now, it's probably set as a vfat, or some such. > > To do this from fdisk: > > > > Switch to single user mode: > > >From a console, as root, type: init s > > and wait unil you have a prompt again. > > > > Once you have it: (assuming that we want to change /dev/hdb (or the > > second disk): > > type "fdisk /dev/hdb" (without the quotes). > > > > Once in fdisk, type "p" (just the letter p). > > This will list your partitions. > > The leftmost column is the partitions. find the one you want. > > Enter "t" (just the letter t), for "type of partition" > > > > it will prompt you for the partition number, then the partition type. > > Just enter the number, and at type, enter 83 (which is linux native). > > After that, enter "w" (for write & quit). > > > > It's usually a good idea to reboot after messing with the partition > > table. It's one of those rare areas that you're better off taking the > > safe road. Every time I've done this without rebooting, I've had strange > > problems. > > > > Once you're out of no mans land, run mkfs again to remake the > > filesystem, and you're on your way. > > > > The whole process is not as scary as it looks. It should take about 1 > > minute. :) it just requires getting familiar with fdisk. > > > > You could alternatly do this from the /usr/sbin/diskdrake GUI. But I'm > > personally more comfortable with fdisk. > > > > hope that helps! > > > > > > -- > > Ric Tibbetts > > > > Linux registration number: 55684 > > If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to > > http://counter.li.org/ > > > > > > ---- > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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