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 05:27 am

Charles E. Campbell wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I attempted to partition my new 120G Maxtor USB external hard disk
> so that approx 20G would be linux and the rest fat32.  The idea was
> to be able to back up the linux side, including ownership, etc.
> 
> I'm getting the following message:
> 
> lion:etc/ ? mount /mnt/maxtor/linux
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> What can I do to make things work properly?

Hello!

I got it working.  I ran fdisk, basically letting it pick the ending blocks
(ie. the rest-of-the-disk).  I then ran mkfs for ext2, and was still getting
the error message on mounting.  I then changed the fstab entry to something
as innocuous as possible:
/dev/sda2		/mnt/maxtor/linux	ext2	defaults	0 0

That did the trick.  I suspect it didn't like umask=0222 setting.  'twould
be nice if the error message was a bit more specific:  like just issue the
one reason instead of several possibilities.

Thank you for helping,
Charles Campbell

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