Re: Partition table still leaves me confused.

[Mark Knecht <markknecht attbi com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 02:23, Albert DE WINT wrote:

> Here's what I got:
> 
> root DIMENSION albert]# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> Then I replaced ext2 -> ext3 
> 
> [root DIMENSION albert]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 

OK, I don't see anything wrong with the command, so a couple of
possibilities comes to mind:

1) The partition type isn't ext2 or ext3. I think this is unlikely, but
you could try some others:

mount -t vfat
mount -t msdos
mount -t fat32
mount -t reiserfs
mount -t xfs

Look at man mount for even more info.

2) Possibly the Mandrake partition is actually damaged? You said you had
a hard time with installation. Maybe it got hurt?

   Assuming that this possible, you could try running e2fsck which is a
program that will check a damaged ext2/etx3 file system and repair it.
First, you want to make sure that /dev/hda3 is NOT mounted. As root, do:

df -T 

and make very sure /dev/hda3 is not there. If it is not, then try:

e2fsch /dev/hda3

On my system it just does:

Wizard root # e2fsck /dev/hda5
e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
/dev/hda5: clean, 119786/692128 files, 415023/1381582 blocks
Wizard root # 


I'm interested in what you'll see.

- Mark