Subj : Re: Partitioning attempt on a Maxtor 120G: wanted both fat32 and
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Charles E. Campbell
Date : Fri Oct 29 2004 03:12 am

Mark Hobley wrote:
> Charles E. Campbell <drchip@campbellfamily.biz> wrote:
> 
>>/dev/sda2               /mnt/maxtor/linux       ext3    rw,umask=0222   0 0
>>
> 
> 
>>I've also tried
>>       mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda2 21021052
>>
>>and changing the ext3 -> ext2 in /etc/fstab.  No luck so far...
> 
> 
> Ok.
> 
> what about:
> 
> fsck /dev/sda2
> 
> does that reveal anything ?
> 
> I presume that the events you have mentioned are consecutive. Did yo do the 
> mkfs command immediately followed by the mount command ?

I used parted to make two partitions, one vfat and one ext2.
I used mkfs on the Linux side to make ext2.  No problems
reported, but mounting yielded the error message.

I then used mkfs on the Linux one to make ext3.  No problems
reported.  Again, mounting yielded the error message.

Here's fsck...

lion:cec/ ? fsck /dev/sda2
fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
/dev/sda2: clean, 11/2632672 files, 90833/5255263 blocks

Thank you for helping,
Charles Campbell

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