Fwd: [GLLUG] Mounting a drive

[pdwald]

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From: pdwald <pdwald at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2007 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Mounting a drive
To: Jordan Robison <jordan.robison at gmail.com>

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.
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.

/etc/fstab contains a description of filesystems present and their mount
points
/etc/mtab only contain the filesystem that are currently mounted, its output
is similar to the one fetched by "mount -v"



--
Pedro von Wald


On 1/6/07, Jordan Robison <jordan.robison at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having trouble mounting a drive this is the error I am getting when I
> try to mount the drive.
>
> [mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
> mount: can't find /dev/hda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> 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?
>
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