On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:03:42PM -0400, Bill Lovett wrote: > I've got a weird situation with the second scsi disk I just put in my > 8500. The disk is formatted as ext2, but I can only get mount to work > if I specify the type as hfs. Check it out-- > > Here's what mac-fisk says about /dev/sdb: > > # type name length base > ( size ) system > /dev/sdb1 Apple_partition_map Apple 100 @ 1 > ( 50.0k) Partition map > /dev/sdb2 FWB Driver Components FWB Driver Components 1024 @ 101 > (512.0k) Unknown > /dev/sdb3 Apple_Driver43 FWB Disk Driver 76 @ 1125 > ( 38.0k) Driver 4.3 > /dev/sdb4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 MP3s 4192214 @ 1201 > ( 2.0G) Linux native > > Block size=512, Number of Blocks=4193415 > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > Drivers- > 1: @ 1125 for 76, type=0x1 > > /dev/sdb4 is Linux native, which is what I want. But if I do this: > > mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt -t ext2 > > which should be correct, I get a "wrong fs type, bad option, bad > superblock on /dev/sdb4" error. Yet mounting with -t hfs works just > fine. What's up with that?
partition types have nothing to do with filesystems. run mke2fs /dev/sdb4 and then you will be able to mount it as ext2. all the data will go away when you do this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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