[plug] mounting problem

[Jon L. Miller]

brand spanking new drive.

jlm
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:30, chris wrote:
> 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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