[plug] mounting problem

[chris]

Try it without specifying the file system type - mount can actually
check and is very good at selecting the correct FS type. Its probably
not EXT2 - probably an old swap partition maybe? Is it a brand new
harddrive? or is it a previously used linux harddrive - in which case
there might be an old fstab on the first partition (or whichever
partition /etc was on - hopefully not hdb3 ;P ) for you to check out and
see what type it is. Then again, it might just be that partition is
corrupted beyond all recognition as well (or not formatted).

Chris

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 03:51, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a partition on a 2nd hard disk as /dev/hdb3 (need to
> move linux from old hard disk to new).  The partition /dev/hdb1 mounted
> okay with mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /new-disk, but when I try to mount the
> 3rd partition using the command mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /new-disk/home I
> get an error message 
> "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb3 or too many
> mounted file systems".  
> The existing are mounts /dev/hda1, /dev/hda5 (swap) /dev/hda6 (home),
> /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2
> New partitions consists of:
> /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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