Error mounting hda1

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Topic: Error mounting hda1
started by: golions

Posted by golions on Aug. 15 2006,00:52

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?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 15 2006,17:54

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.

Posted by _pathos on Aug. 16 2006,09:53

The partition is set as a linux partition type but has the filesystem been built (with mkfs) try fsck.

Posted by golions on Aug. 16 2006,12:42

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.

Posted by axy on Aug. 30 2006,19:07

Man i had a partition fat32 and it works, try with the command mount or look if the hd its slave or master :rock:

Posted by Acon on Sep. 01 2006,13:44

hey try to open emelfm as SU. Then you will get your premission to copy to hda1