Problem in Mounting Drives

SBN · 02-03-2008, 08:41 PM

Hey guys i edited my fstab and placed this line:

Quote:

/dev/sdb5 /DATA ext3 auto 0 0

but it wont automatically mount the drive upon boot, so i have to manually mount the drive using the terminal:

Quote:

mount /dev/sdb5 /DATA

what could be wrong?

gilead · 02-03-2008, 08:59 PM

Do you see any errors written to the screen during boot-up? You could try changing auto to defaults, but I don't think it should make a difference. Apart from that, what do the other entries in your /etc/fstab file have?

SBN · 02-04-2008, 05:32 PM

Yes i did, there is something about fs type not supported, bad option, and superblock not supported on /dev/sdb5.... how do i fix this?

jschiwal · 02-04-2008, 05:52 PM

You may want to check if the filesystem is ext3 with the command "sudo file -s /dev/sdb5". If the filesystem was created on that partition, you could run
"sudo /sbin/fsck.ext3 /dev/sdb5" to check if the filesystem isn't corrupt.

juanctes · 02-04-2008, 06:02 PM

try replacing this line in fstab with:
/dev/sdb5 /DATA ext2 defaults 0 0
I had ( now i use reiserfs ) ext3 fs that had to mount using -t ext2 because ext3 gave error...