Re: Mounting disks

From: James Hosken (james_at_jamesho.co.uk)
Date: 11/29/03

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    Quoting Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>:

    > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +0000, James Hosken wrote:
    >
    > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/
    > >
    > > and I get the error
    > >
    > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
    > > or too many mounted file systems
    > > I'm pritty sure that it is the right file systems, I was using Mandrake
    > 8.1
    > > standard setup. I think the disk may be a bit dodgy. Is there any thing
    > that I
    > > can do? I know there are several superblocks for this soer of thing.
    >
    > Well, starting from the end: how many filesystems do you have mounted?
    >
    > Run fdisk or cfdisk on /dev/hdb and see what partition type /dev/hdb5
    > really is.
    >
    > If it's ext2, run e2fsck on it.

    Thanks for the reply, it is hdb8 that I'm really intrested in rather than hdb5
    Here's he result from fdisk

    Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
     
       Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdb1 * 117 510 3164805 b W95 FAT32
    /dev/hdb2 511 5005 36106087+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/hdb5 511 573 506016 83 Linux
    /dev/hdb6 574 604 248976 82 Linux swap
    /dev/hdb7 605 986 3068383+ 83 Linux
    /dev/hdb8 987 5005 32282586 83 Linux

    Here is the result from fsck /dev/hdb8

    fsck 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003)
    e2fsck 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003)
    fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while tr
    ying to open /dev/hdb8
    Could this be a zero-length partition?

    I have run fsck on hdb5 and hdb7 as well and they come back with the same error.
    Any surgestions?
    Thanks 

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