-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:43, Martin Wegmann wrote: > I used fdisk to partition the hard drive into 3 approx. 50 GB partitions - > worked fine. Then I added in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 > /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 > > and did for each mkdir /mnt/sda1 > 2 and 3 respectively > > but when I do: > mount /dev/sda1 I get > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, > or too many mounted file systems > > for sda2 I get that the filesystem can not be recognised. > > after I rebooted I tried to run fdisk /dev/sda or sda1 but I receive an > error: Unable to open /dev/sda3
Looks to me like you missed a fairly basic and extremely vital step: formating the filesystems with mkfs. Cheers, FJP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0g4Qgm/Kwh6ICoQRAubaAKChnBkNrAoQA5Os2GUucUtHqZZREwCff7Hz Ug+MypcRM2nW4r3YNjAkLy0= =iSzY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
