Ahh!  Yes, mount -t.  I should have know - its been awhile.  Thank you both
for your help.

-Brett

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Brown
To: Lloyd, Brett Y.
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: 1/21/2003 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] problem mounting /dev/hdaX

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Lloyd, Brett Y. wrote:

> mount /dev/hdaX /mnt  I get the error that the file system is not
found in
> fstab or in mtab.  What does one have to do to get your systems file
systems
> to mount?  It should be simple yes?

use `mount -t <fstype> /dev/hdaX /mnt`
unless there is an entry in /etc/fstab telling mount what fstype to try,
you need to tell it explicitly.

Steve Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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