James Gregory wrote:
I was under the impression that mount would attempt to load the right
module when you attempt to load a filesystem of that type. I could be
wrong on that, but I've never had to do anything to mount exotic
filesystems.
Yes, that's correct if the dependencies are correct. We are just pedantic to be
sure. Once, we know the process is working we can check the automation.
but, 'fdisk' still doesn't see it, should it ?
Uhh, there's no such thing as a 'JFS partition'. It's just a 'normal' partition with a JFS filesystem on it. In much the same way that my XFS partitions just show up as 'Linux'. This isn't a problem.
fdisk will see it as 'type 83 - linux' not as a filesystem.
There is a way to ascertain what filesystem is the partition but can't remember.
What I'd do is do a series of mount command and see the results.
Once mounted verify the filesystem type by the command:
# df -T
when I try this: # mount -t jfs /dev/sdb /mnt/hd
60 seconds later, the prompt still hasn't come back..?
Ok, that's a problem. I'd guess you've got a broken filesystem. Have you got a backup of the disk? If not, I'd suggest taking an image of it and then using jfs_fsck to see if it can find anything.
That means the filesystem in the partition is not 'jfs'.
Just to check try other filesystem types.
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