Subject: Re: mount problems
From: Randall Perry (rgp@systame.com)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 07:46:31 MST
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>> 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:
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>> [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
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> Did you mke2fs /dev/hda5? Regardless of the partition type, there may not be a
> filesystem there.
>
> -Hollis
Thanks. I figured that out myself. Though I was unable to create a
filesystem the same size as the partition (6G). Is there any limit on
filesystem size in 2.2 kernels?
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