Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, SW wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to find out how I can go about making sure my new hard drive
> (/dev/hde) is correctly formated and partitioned. This was my 1st time
> adding a hard drive in a linux system and I had a pretty hard time setting
> it up.
> 
> Now, I'm getting the following error when I try to run a backup script to
> this hard drive:
> 
> Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Here is the info for this hard drive:
> 
> # e2fsck /dev/hde
> e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> /dev/hde: clean, 194/24428544 files, 2871129/48840246 blocks
> 
> #vi /etc/fstab
> /dev/hde                /Backups                ext3    defaults        1 2
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to go about troubleshooting this problem?

I'm going to take a shot in the dark, and guess that you formatted the 
drive as ext2, instead of ext3.  Try changing the ext3 entry to ext2, and 
remounting.

Conversely, you could try "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hde" to format the drive in 
ext3, and try mounting it with your fstab the way it is.
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Mike Burger
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