On 10 Oct 2003, D.V. Rogers wrote:
> Hoping for some more help on trying to mount drive hdb to retrieve
> data. thanks dazza & rickw for their recent postings.
Welcome. :-)
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2480 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 14 2415 19294065 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 2416 2480 522112+ 82 Linux swap
[..snipt..]
> I then created the directory /mnt/temp as a directory to mount to
>
> The following happens;
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
> or too many mounted file systems
> --------------
>
> have also attempted to add a line into /etc/fstab then reboot which
> results in having to do a rescue as it then would enable system in write
> mode only.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> less /etc/fstab (is as follows)
>
> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Are you sure it's ext2? Could it possibly be ext3, or some other kind of
Linux filesystem {reiserfs? xfs?}.
Have you tried doing the following if you *are* sure it's ext2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> fsck /dev/hdb1
It's possible something has been damaged ont he partition, and an fsck
will fix it.
Try running one and see what happens.
DaZZa
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