Here is the deal, I run a slackware 9.1 box and I have 4 partitions, one for /, one for /music, swap space and lastly boot. I recently had to reinstall slack, (my fault don't ever try and upgrade you kernel without backing up your old one and leaving it as a boot option). i did not touch fdisk and just went ahead with the install, i did not reformat the /music partition, and now i cannot see it. Is there anyway i can mount the partition? if so what is it?
At any rate, I have learned lots about linux from this little adventure.........
mike

ok mike

first you have to determine what drive or you are using hda b c or d

then the partition number

Or can you say how many hd you have installed this would help

cheers

what does fdisk -l return?

it returns
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 32 883 6843690 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 884 4741 30989385 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4742 4864 987997+ 82 Linux swap

/dev/hda2 is the partition i want to mount
thanks,mike

looks like it's recognized. have you tried

mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/yourdirectory

yea i have, i get:
/dev/hda2 not found in etc/fstab
soooo i tried to edit /etc/fstab to include /dev/had2, still the same problem..... i know the partiton still exsits and that the stuff on it is there, i am just baffled as to why it does not want to mount...
thanks, mike

i'll be off soon so it may take a while to get back to you, but, post the output of

cat /etc/fstab

we'll have a look at that and try to decipher what's going on.
good luck.

cat /etc/fstab does not show /dev/hda2 i would post the entire thing, but alas, i have to use a windows computer (boo) to post this since i am at home, and have no modem on my laptop. The /etc/fstab looks somthing like this
/dev/hda1 / ext3 linux
/dev/hda3 boot boot boot
/dev/hda4 swap swap swap

that is not verbatim but the general idea (i dont have the laptop around) so now what..... i tried to edit it using pico, however the same error occured.... weird.... any way thanks for the help
mike

try adding this to your /etc/fstab

from a terminal as root

pico /etc/fstab

/dev/hda2 /dirname yourfilesys umask=000,rw 1 0

save and exit.
good luck.

Hi Mike

Just folloewing along here this was suggested
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/yourdirectory
but try this as well with the various filesystems
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/yourdirectory

note the -t for the type this is assuming your hd has a reiserfs or just put the filesystem that you used in its place.

Cheers

ok, so i modify fstab so it look like this
/dev/hda2 /music ext3 umask=000,rw 10
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 00
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 11
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso966- noauto,owner,ro 00

and i still cant mount the thing, so i tried "mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/yourdirectory" both with the mod to /etc/fstab and without and it returns:
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file sysems"
thanks
mike

Hi Mike

One thing , did you try this as root?
Dont worry about modifying your fstab file just yet.

just change to the /mnt directory and try mounting your filesystems there
try the following as root

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /dev/music
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /dev/music
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /dev/music

this is assuming that you have a directory called music in your /mnt directory.
One thing, you dont have to put an entry in the fstab file to make the filesystem work, if you cant moun't the filesystem as root manually, then fstab wont be able to mount the filesystem either.

cheers

i get:
"mount point /dev/music does not exsit"
for all three comands..... still stumped....
thanks,
mike

should be

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/music
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /mnt/music
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/music

providing you have created the directory /mnt/music

from a terminal as root

cd /mnt
mkdir music

now you have the specified /mnt/music directory.

Ok so i did that, then
mount -t reiserfs /hda2 /dev/music retrurns Mount point /dev/music does not exsist....
thanks, mike