Re: Failure mounting extra partition on boot

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 02/11/04

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:07:50 -0500

    On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:20 am, Bruce wrote:
    > I have a rather strange problem that I can't figure out. I have two
    > ext3 partitions on my Sid system, with the following lines in
    > /etc/fstab:
    >
    > /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
    > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 defaults,auto,users,exec,noatime,notail 0 0
    >
    > hda3 is my root partition; hda1 was a Windows partition, reformatted to
    > ext3. Problem is, only the / partition will mount on boot.
    >
    > Once I have booted, I try the following:
    >
    > root@0[bruce]# mount /mnt/hda1
    > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
    > or too many mounted file systems

    You have a bad mount option. "notail" is an option for ReiserFS, not ext3.

    Remove the "notail" option from /etc/fstab.

    Adam 

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