Mounting hard drive?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Mounting hard drive?
started by: lalala

Posted by lalala on Jan. 05 2006,21:56

Hi everyone
i have 3 hard drives
80G hda for windows
200G hdb for documents, i partition this one into 50G and 150G
20G hdd for linux hdd

fdisk -l says
hdb1 wat95 fat32(LBA)
hdb2 w95 ext'd (LBA)
hdb5 w95 fat32

i can mount my hda, hda1 perfectly but when i try hdb5 it complains

This is what i get when i try

mount -t auto /dev/hdb5 /mnt/d
or
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb5 /mnt/d

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

and this is what i got after dmesg | tail

i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.5
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.

Is there any way to get arround this?
Thank You

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 06 2006,04:15

What do you get if you type:

cat /etc/fstab

on a blank line?

Otherwise,

sudo su
mkdir /mnt/d
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/d
exit

should work if needed.

Posted by lalala on Jan. 07 2006,21:24

this is my /etc/fstab
/dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdd6 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd7 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

without the /dev/hdb5, so i add this line
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/d vfat defaults 0 0
but the same error happen.
I tried mount -t vfat but still same error

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 10 2006,17:51

Have you formatted the partition?

In addition to creating the new partition in your partition table, you still need to format the partition as FAT32.

Then it should be automatically detected by DSL's KNOPPIX autodetection script and then added to your /etc/fstab