Now this all makes sense except for one tiny little detail. I had already changed the file system type to ext3, and have files on it now. with the ability to set permissions and ownership as well. I've got about 2GBs of data on there I can access once it's mounted.
even though I've already changed and formated it in the "mounting points" CC, could it still be remenant of the Vfat filesystem? I've got it setting permissions independantly, and running my programs fine. NB... (I just wish it would mount properly w/ mount...) On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:46, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 17:51, Nelson Bartley wrote: > > Interesting situation. > > > > When I originally partitioned my hard drive I created it in the Disk > > Drake utility during setup. It was created w/ a 5GB win drive, followed > > by a 250MB /boot, 250MB swap, and 4GB ext3 / drive, and the other 8GB > > was created into another win partition. Well after having decided to > > take the 1 month challenge I decided I no longer needed my 8GB partition > > in Win form, so I changed the SOB over to ext3, which worked perfectly. > > > > Now here's the situation. When trying to mount the drive through mount > > and linuxconf I get an error message which sais: > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too > > many mounted file systems. > > > > Now, if I go into the "mount points" in the Control Centre I can mount > > the partition fine. It sais its saving to the fstab, however I'm not > > sure. > > > > If anyone has any ideas, or could suggest a way to tell what arguments > > the Control Centre is passing to the mount command I would greatly > > appreciate. > > Heh heh.. oops. > Before you can do that, You need to change the partition type. > I've always done that with "fdisk" (careful in there! You can blow up > the system doing this). > > Right now, it's probably set as a vfat, or some such. > To do this from fdisk: > > Switch to single user mode: > >From a console, as root, type: init s > and wait unil you have a prompt again. > > Once you have it: (assuming that we want to change /dev/hdb (or the > second disk): > type "fdisk /dev/hdb" (without the quotes). > > Once in fdisk, type "p" (just the letter p). > This will list your partitions. > The leftmost column is the partitions. find the one you want. > Enter "t" (just the letter t), for "type of partition" > > it will prompt you for the partition number, then the partition type. > Just enter the number, and at type, enter 83 (which is linux native). > After that, enter "w" (for write & quit). > > It's usually a good idea to reboot after messing with the partition > table. It's one of those rare areas that you're better off taking the > safe road. Every time I've done this without rebooting, I've had strange > problems. > > Once you're out of no mans land, run mkfs again to remake the > filesystem, and you're on your way. > > The whole process is not as scary as it looks. It should take about 1 > minute. :) it just requires getting familiar with fdisk. > > You could alternatly do this from the /usr/sbin/diskdrake GUI. But I'm > personally more comfortable with fdisk. > > hope that helps! > > > -- > Ric Tibbetts > > Linux registration number: 55684 > If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to > http://counter.li.org/ > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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