Partition formatting

TurboChicken · 03-06-2006, 07:16 PM

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?

2damncommon · 03-06-2006, 08:52 PM

Quote:

any ideas?

Format it?

michaelk · 03-06-2006, 09:12 PM

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.

TurboChicken · 03-07-2006, 10:16 AM

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