<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">pdwald</b> <<a href="mailto:pdwald@gmail.com">pdwald@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 7, 2007 12:16 AM<br>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Mounting a drive
<br>To: Jordan Robison <<a href="mailto:jordan.robison@gmail.com">jordan.robison@gmail.com</a>><br><br></span>Try to determine if the /dev/hda3 exist with "fdisk /dev/hda -l". If /dev/hda3 exists, it will show on in the list. If /dev/hda3 exists and is formated you probably can mount it manually with: "mount -t [filesystem] /dev/hda3 /mnt/[mount point]" whereas [filesystem] is the filesystem utilized by /dev/hda3 and [mount point] is an empty directory wherein the /dev/hd3 would be mounted.
<br>In case of a linux system [filesystem[ would most likely be ext2, ext3, or reiserfs. If it is a windows partition, it could be vfat or ntfs. <br><br>/etc/fstab contains a description of filesystems present and their mount points
<br>/etc/mtab only contain the filesystem that are currently mounted, its output is similar to the one fetched by "mount -v"<br><br><br><br>--<br>Pedro von Wald<br><br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_10ffafca8164bddf_1">
<span class="gmail_quote">On 1/6/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Jordan Robison</b> <<a href="mailto:jordan.robison@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jordan.robison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div>
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I am having trouble mounting a drive this is the error I am getting when I try to mount the drive.<br><br>[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
<br>mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
<br><br>I am tried to mount this drive for some time now but I always end up in a dead end. I have stuff that I need on it so I don't want to format it. Dose anyone have any suggestions?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span>
Jordan Robison
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