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Called: mount /dev/hdb5
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/hdb5,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
What is this message talking about? Anyway I can fix it?
But what are you really trying to do. Your first post was trying to mount the cdrom. It looks like your running SUSE which uses /media/cdrom instead of /mnt/cdrom.
Are you trying to mount the NTFS partition? Not sure if SUSE has NTFS support in its default kernel.
You could try
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /some_mount_point
You are right, I am using SUSE 8.0. I am trying to mount vfat hdb5. I can see the info from the tool kDiskFree. It contains hdb5 vfat. Here is the display from kDiskFree:
I can select it and mount, then get error message.
When I install SUSE 8.0 the partition was there. But seems it didn't show up in fdisk for some reason.
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