----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 6:45 PM Subject: [newbie] need help with mounting, swap > > I have a fat32 partition (my "D:" drive) after my Linux partitions on > a 13 gig hard drive. I can mount the C: drive (/dev/hda1), but so far > have not been able to mount /dev/hda9. Here is what I get: > > [ /mnt ] root # mount /dev/hda9 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9, > or too many mounted file systems > (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, > instead of some logical partition inside?) Comment out the entry from fstab for /dev/hda9, then try mount -t vfat /dev/hda9 /mnt/win2 What do you get? I use a slightly different line in fstab for my vfat drive: /dev/hda12 /marvin/f vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 This is a line written by linuxconf to fstab. Hoyt
