mounting ext3 harddisk

Goatdemon · 08-15-2003, 02:35 PM

how can i mount an ext3 formatted harddisk? i've tried ...
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb

zLinuxz · 08-15-2003, 02:38 PM

what error message do you get?

I suppose that you installed your Linux OS with ext3 file system right?, or is it ext2?

If your file system is ext3, then you should just have to mount it like you did on the first line, if those are the appropiate names for the drive and the folder in the /mnt folder.

let us know bro!

zLinuxz

Skyline · 08-15-2003, 04:46 PM

Hi Goatdemon

Quote:

how can i mount an ext3 formatted harddisk? i've tried ...
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb

The problem youve got here is that you havent specified a partition to mount from /dev/hdb

Youve effectively said - mount my whole primary slave drive to a mount point called /mnt/hdb

What you need to do is specify a partition to mount from /dev/hdb

ie if theres a single partition then it would be

mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb

ie replace

/dev/hdb with /dev/hdbx

were x is the partition number you want to mount

bulliver · 08-15-2003, 06:13 PM

Skyline is correct. Also make sure that the mountpoint '/mnt/hdb' actually exists, and is a directory.

Goatdemon · 08-16-2003, 01:57 AM

thanks. i did do a "mkdir /mnt/hdb" so that wasnt the problem. i had tried mounting /dev/hdb3, which was my root partition, this being a harddrive from a previous gentoo install but it didn't work. hd1 mounted fine and its got all of my crap on it. wierd because hdb1 was /boot, hdb2 swap and hd3 /. anyway thanks.