Cannot Mount slave Hard Drive

natewlew · 03-21-2006, 09:44 PM

I took my 80gig hard drive and formatted it with fdisk and here is what it looks like.

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Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 9606 77160163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 9607 9964 2875635 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Then I ran:

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mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1

mkswap /dev/hdb2

Here is what fstab looks like:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /opt2 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 none swap defaults 0 0

When I try to mount the drive it says:

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home:/home/# mount /opt2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I really don't know what I am doing wrong. If anyone has any advice I would be very grateful.

Randux · 03-21-2006, 10:48 PM

You did everything right except...if you make an ext2 fs you don't want to specify ext3 in the fstab!

natewlew · 03-21-2006, 10:58 PM

I do thank you very much for the fast reply. That fixed my problem instantly. I can't believe I made such a simple mistake.

Randux · 03-21-2006, 11:22 PM

Hey man, you're very welcome. Besides, simple mistakes may be harder to find, but they're a lot easier to fix!