Re: Mount error

[Hugo van der Kooij <Hugo van der Kooij caiw nl>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Matthew Gerstenberger wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We are installing 4.2 and are receiving a mount error.
> 
> We have 2 disks and if we partition as:
> disk 1
> 100M	Linux Native
> 300M 	Linux Swap
> Disk 2
> 900M	Linux Native
> 
> it installs just fine. However if we change disk 1 by either adding
> more partitions or increasing the 2nd partition(it is a 2G disk)
> we get
> 
> Error:
> Mount Failed: Invalid Arguement
> 
> and the alt-f2 console says,
> 
> Cant find an ext2 filesystem on dev 08:03.
> 
> It is not always on 08:03, it depends on partition sizes, etc.
> Any ideas?  Is like likely to be  disk or a disk controller problem,
> or are we just doing something else stupid?

If you have a running system you can add partitions to it.

Just:
 - Create partition with fdisk
 - Create filesystem on it with mkfs
 - Create mount pount
 - Mount the new partition

Hugo.

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