Re: Hard drive mounting problems with debian

From: Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (jkerouac_at_bgsec.com)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:23:10 +0200

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Tim Hope wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got a problem when I try to mount a couple of my hard drives. I've
>>formatted them using cfdisk (which works fine, except it wont allow me
>>to change the type to ext3). However, when I try to mount the drives
>>(there are two separate ones), I get the error "Wrong fs type, bad
>>option, bad superblock...". I'm not sure why this is and have completed
>>a bad block scan with no errors, and the file type is correct?
>
>
> We cannot provide any details until you do. How specifically did you try to
> mount the drive? What Linux distribution and version? What makes you think
> the "file type" is correct (and don't you mean filsesystem type)?
>

Maybe he didn't create the filesystem with mkfs.ext3, because he talks
about "formatting" the partition with cfdisk, and cfdisk just creates
the partitions, but then he have to create the filesystem with
mkfs.ext3. Obviously I'm talking about a new partition, doing this in
an existing partition WILL DESTROY all the data you have in that
partition. 

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