Re: mount problems


Subject: Re: mount problems
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 21:34:20 MST


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Randall Perry wrote:

> I've got a beige G3 running kernel 2.2.18-8a. It's got an internal SCSI
> drive with separate partitions for '/' and 'home'. Here's the table:
>
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
> 2: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64
> 3: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118
> 4: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192
> 5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /main 4218581 @ 704 ( 2.0G)
> 6: Apple_Free Extra 8437163 @ 4219285 ( 4.0G)
>
> when trying to mount I get the following error:
>
> [root@ftp /opt]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /main
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
> or too many mounted file systems

Did you mke2fs /dev/hda5? Regardless of the partition type, there may not be a
filesystem there.

-Hollis



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