Was this drive originally structured on another motherboard? Will Lowe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Am I missing something? > > > Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > > > > > Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > >> At 05:45 PM 6/25/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >> > >>> I really hate to say RTFM, but the command MAN mount > >>> will give you the missing peice of the puzzle for your > >>> system. You have to tell the OS what sort of file > >>> system is on the HDD. Only fair bro, it can't guess. > >> > >> > > > > Actually mount does try to determine the file system type. I can often > > mount file systems that are not in fstab or anything else just by > > saying "mount device mountpoint". > > > > Shannon > > > In addition - I could tell you to read the man page! :-) direct from the > man page: > > If no -t option is given, or > if the auto type is specified, the superblock is probed for the > filesystem type (adfs, bfs, cramfs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, > iso9660, jfs, minix, ntfs, qnx4, reiserfs, romfs, udf, ufs, > vxfs, xfs, xiafs are supported). If this probe fails, mount > will try to read the file /etc/filesystems, or, if that does not > exist, /proc/filesystems. All of the filesystem types listed > there will be tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev" > (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems ends in a > line with a single * only, mount will read /proc/filesystems > afterwards. > The auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating > a file /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order > (e.g., to try vfat before msdos) or if you use a kernel module > autoloader. Warning: the probing uses a heuristic (the presence > of appropriate magic), and could recognize the wrong filesys- > tem type, possibly with catastrophic consequences. If your data > is valuable, dont ask mount to guess. > > Even though it has the note that it can guess wrong.... it works 99% of > the time. > > Shannon > > > > > > > > >> > >> He said in the email that he did specify the filesystem type. > >> > >> > >> --- > >> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Puryear Information Technology > >> Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > >> http://www.puryear-it.com > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > -- > Shannon Roddy > __________________________________________________________________ > Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy > Calendar/Schedule See Home Page > Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
