cant mount second drive
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Jan 18 03:43:12 UTC 2007
jack wallen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> used to be i could install a second drive, taken from another linux box,
> and mount it with something like:
>
> mount /dev/hdb2 /data
>
> well now on a fresh fc6 (64 bit) install i can not do that.
>
> here's my set up:
>
> 2 drives: hda and hdb. hda holds my new install. hdb was from an older
> install and i need to get files from it. it's from an i386 install and
> the machine kinda melted down.
>
> when i run the command:
>
> mount /dev/hdb2 /data
>
> i get the mount: you must specify the filesystem type error. i know this
> is an ext3 filesystem (it's also from FC6). if i try to specify the
> filesystem with:
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /data
>
> i get:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
>
> what am i doing wrong?
>
> i can mount /dev/hdb1 and i get the boot partition showing up just find.
> but hdb2 will not show up.
>
> any suggestions?
run parted and print the partition table. Maybe hdb2 was not what you
remember it was. Could have been your swap partion.
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