Re: ext2 on RH7.1

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:06:08 +0000 "Nat B." <bichesereine hotmail com>
imparted to us:
> Hi all,
> 
> I installed RH7.1 on a system with 2 SCSI drives each one is 9GB.
> I chose "Automatically partition hard drives" during the installation
> and I 
> got the following:
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             9.0G  6.3G  2.2G  75% /
> /dev/sda1              56M  8.1M   44M  16% /boot
> 
> In the /var/log/dmesg, the system sees a sda2 partition, but I'm not
> beeing 
> able to mount it:
> 
> SCSI device sda: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide msgout: 1-2-3-1.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide msgin: 1-2-3-1.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide: wide=1 chg=0.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide msgout: 1-2-3-1.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide msgin: 1-2-3-1.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: wide: wide=1 chg=0.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: sync msgout: 1-3-1-c-1f.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: sync msg in: 1-3-1-c-1f.
> sym53c896-0-<1,0>: sync: per=12 scntl3=0xb0 scntl4=0x0 ofs=31 fak=0
> chg=0.
> sym53c896-0-<1,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 31)
> SCSI device sdb: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
> sdb: sdb1
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> 
> [root Faon log]# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/hdd
> /dev/sda2: Success
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> [root Faon /root]# mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/hdd
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>        (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>        instead of some logical partition inside?)
> 
> 
> And when I try to make ext2 FS on /dev/sda2:
> 
> [root Faon log]# mke2fs /dev/sda2
> mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/sda2: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting
> up 
> superblock
> 
> Well, did anyone have that problem before? Why sda2 wasn't mounted and
> installed during standard installation of RH7.1? How can I mount sda2
> to use 
> the free 8GB remaining?

First step, as root:

/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda -l

The output of that will give an indication of what the next step
could/should be to get where you want to go.

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