Hello I am trying to mount my extended partition, but I got this error message:

root@oc:/# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt/data
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

What did I do wrong? Below is the list of my partition from fdisk:

Disk /dev/hda: 13.0 GB, 13010264064 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 365 2931831 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 366 1581 9767520 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 366 851 3903763+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 852 1549 5606653+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1550 1581 257008+ 82 Linux swap

what is the maximum number of file systems I can mount?

Thanks

are you sure that it is ext2 FS??or is it ext3???try .make sure that there is /mnt/data directory.(just do 'ls /mnt/')

or this may be due to the fact that /dev/hda5 entry is present in /etc/fstab.check it.if yes just try 'mount /dev/hda5' or 'mount -a'

thanks for the response. Yes, I listed the partition in the fstab, but eventhough I use "mount -a" I still get the same error. I guess I did not supply the correct parameters.

What I am going to try now is to delete those partition from fstab, and mount it manually from the command line.

I have this same exact problem (same error message and everything) I've tryed the manual mounting method with no luck either.

Any other suggestions?

Is hda5 the correct partition your trying to mount?

actually... mine is hda6... so not EXACTLY the same... but does that make that much of a difference? (other then just another number..)

Try using auto for the filesystem type. Mandrake usually configures everything during the install. Are you trying to mount a partition thats already mounted?

The partition was previously mounted, yes... but the problem is that with my experimenting with permissions with samba and winbind, I've rebooted the linux machine since and now it won't automaticly mount this partition anymore.

I really hope this can be fixed seeing as was able to get the samba working at one point and had moved a bunch of valuable data to it... of course.....

Yes, I am trying to mount hda5 and hda6 actually. Do you think that my "extended" type is wrong? Should I make it "Linux Extended" instead?

I tried to delete my extended partition and change the type to Linux Extended, but FDISK failed. I guess since my /dev/hda1 is being used for the OS and kernel, it won't let fdisk repartition other partition on the same physical disk?

Not know whether it does the job, but I suggest using "fsck.ext2" to check that partition manually and maybe you'll find something.

tryed the fsck.ext2 and it just says the that partition is clean... nothing else. and of course, the partition is still not mountable.

I re-install my slackware from scratch because I thought I did not partition my hard drive correctly, this time I make sure I do it correctly and format those partitions. Guess what, now I can mount those partition with no problem. I believe first time I installed the OS, I did not format the hda5 and hda6.

What is Linux command to format a partition? I know it is not 'format' or 'fmt'.

Thanks

See man pages for mkfs, mkreiserfs, mke2fs