Re: Why can't I mount my 60gb hard drive?

From: Jacob Heider (lord-jacob_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/05/03


Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:27:39 GMT

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:00:18 +0000, David Karhi wrote:

> I have two hard drives, a 12gb and a 60gb. On the 12gb, I have two
> partitions, one running windows and the other running a fresh install of
> redhat 9 (I boot from a floppy). I can mount my first hard drive's windows
> partition (the 12gb) just fine, but when I try to do a mount -t vfat
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/d it gives me the standard error. can not mount, file system
> may be incorrect or too many devices already mounted. Both partitions are
> fat32, which the hardware manager confirms. Im pretty sure linux can handle
> a drive that big, so what could be the problem? Could it be bios reading the
> geometry wrong? I'm stuck. Anyone wanna help?
>
> David

Make sure /mnt/d exists. Make sure you have a filesystem on /dev/hdb1 (try
fdisk -l /dev/hdb). If all else appears to be well, try fsck /dev/hdb1.

Jacob



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