Re: external hard drive
On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:32, Frans Pop wrote: [] > Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: > formating the filesystems with mkfs. ähm, well, next morning, new brain resources, I had the same idea and yeah, I forgot to do mke2fs /dev/sda1 . ;-) thanks for your reply, Martin -- - please send me a CC when replying
Re: external hard drive
On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:32, Frans Pop wrote: [] > Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: > formating the filesystems with mkfs. ähm, well, next morning, new brain resources, I had the same idea and yeah, I forgot to do mke2fs /dev/sda1 . ;-) thanks for your reply, Martin -- - please send me a CC when replying
Re: external hard drive
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:43:05PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" > SP1604N) using debian testing/unstable, Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. > > I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - > worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 > > and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1 > 2 and 3 respectively > > but when I do: > mount /dev/sda1 I get > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, >or too many mounted file systems > > for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised. > > after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an > error: > Unable to open /dev/sda3 > Did you load the required modules? since its sda, I am assuming usb-storage, but no experience with that, so it may be something else. The hotplug package may help. > any idea how to solve that? TIA Martin > > > -- > - > please send me a CC when replying > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. >
Re: external hard drive
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:43:05PM +0200, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to set up my new external hard drive (Samsung 160 GB, FDB 3.5" > SP1604N) using debian testing/unstable, Kernel 2.4.22-xfs. > > I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - > worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 > > and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1 > 2 and 3 respectively > > but when I do: > mount /dev/sda1 I get > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, >or too many mounted file systems > > for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised. > > after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an error: > Unable to open /dev/sda3 > Did you load the required modules? since its sda, I am assuming usb-storage, but no experience with that, so it may be something else. The hotplug package may help. > any idea how to solve that? TIA Martin > > > -- > - > please send me a CC when replying > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: external hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:43, Martin Wegmann wrote: > I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - > worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 > > and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1 > 2 and 3 respectively > > but when I do: > mount /dev/sda1 I get > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, >or too many mounted file systems > > for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised. > > after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an > error: Unable to open /dev/sda3 Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: formating the filesystems with mkfs. Cheers, FJP -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0g4Qgm/Kwh6ICoQRAubaAKChnBkNrAoQA5Os2GUucUtHqZZREwCff7Hz Ug+MypcRM2nW4r3YNjAkLy0= =iSzY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: external hard drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:43, Martin Wegmann wrote: > I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - > worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 > > and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1 > 2 and 3 respectively > > but when I do: > mount /dev/sda1 I get > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, >or too many mounted file systems > > for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised. > > after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an > error: Unable to open /dev/sda3 Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: formating the filesystems with mkfs. Cheers, FJP -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0g4Qgm/Kwh6ICoQRAubaAKChnBkNrAoQA5Os2GUucUtHqZZREwCff7Hz Ug+MypcRM2nW4r3YNjAkLy0= =iSzY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
