User Feedback :: Error mounting hda1
I am having trouble mounting my hard drive. When I use the mount tool to try and mount hda1, I get the following error: "Mount: you must specify the fileystem type" I have a 40GB hard drive with one 20GB partition. Here is what my partition table looks like:
Partition Table for /dev/hda
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
1 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 1023 63 39070017
2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
does anyone have any advice to help me fix this problem?
What format is it? If it isn't ntfs, *fat, or ext2/3, I don't think DSL can mount it by default.
(Or is it formatted at all?)
If you want to try to specify the filesystem type manually, you can use the -t <type> option in mount.
The partition is set as a linux partition type but has the filesystem been built (with mkfs) try fsck.
Thank you very much for the help, I finally got it to work. Here is what i did:
I booted up dsl from the cd using dsl acpi=off cheat code, then I ran cfdisk and created a one gigabyte Primary partition, file type ntfs, and flagged it bootable.
Then I restarted dsl. I tried to mount it using the GUI in the lower right corner, I recieved the same error. Then i tried using fsck, but it said I had a bad superblock or something. Then I tried to build the file system with mkfs and it worked. Then i typed
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1and it mounted.
My only problem now is that Emelfm says I don't have permission to copy files to /mnt/hda1 which is only a slight annoyance since I can always use the shell to move files.
Man i had a partition fat32 and it works, try with the command mount or look if the hd its slave or master :rock:
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