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Partition formatting

okay... i hopefully this will be the last question i need to ask you guys...

i used partition Magic in windoze to create some partitions on a 200GB drive i have...

way it works... got a fat32 partition as primary 40GB... NTFS 50GB as extended... and a 110GB ext2 partition

now...

added the entry to fstab

Code:

/dev/hda6 /movies ext2 defaults,umask=000 0 0

Code:

[root@localhost sbin]# mount -a

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6,

      missing codepage or other error

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so

but if i umount it and then do mount -a again it's fine... but then i can't write to it...

any ideas?

Quote:

any ideas?

Format it?

umask is not a valid option for an ext2 filesystem. See man mount for additional info. Verify the permissions for the /movies directory allows RWX for all.

yeah i found out last night that the permissions on the /movies folder was the problem

chmod 777 movies/ did the trick

thanks for the reply guys