Sorry about the HTML, I'm a bit too used to windows. I'm a VERY new
Linus user. I'm still working on my first install. Anyway, I've attached my
fstab file, take a look and see what you think. PLease keep in mind that
even for a newbie, I'm a linux idiot.
Thanks, guys.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] too many mounts?
> On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Got the error Too Many Mounts when trying to mount HDA8.
> >HDA5 is the only other HD mount listed, other that root
> > and swap. Suggestions? I could really use the HD space. >
>
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> Please lose the HTML. It's not appreciated in this (or any
> other) list that *I* know of.
> Now, as to your problem, how have you defined hda8 on your
> system? Please attach a copy of your /etc/fstab for us to
> pick over. :-)
> IF hda8 exists (certain partitions will show up in FTP but
> won't be useable as they are "administrative" partitions
> for lack of a better term -- ie they define the "extended
> partition" space and are ONLY used for creating an extended
> partition that holds other partitions.)
> First thing you'll need to do is decide how big it is,
> whether it's been formatted or not, and if so, in what file
> format?
> If it's not formatted, this is similar to the error you get
> in Dos/Windows of "unknown filetype" and you need to format
> it in ext2 filesystem. The command is mkext2 /dev/hdXZ
> where X=partition letter (A-???) and Z=partition number. In
> this case, it would be hda8.
> John
fstab
