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Posted: Aug. 15 2006,00:52 QUOTE

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?
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Posted: Aug. 15 2006,17:54 QUOTE

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.
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Posted: Aug. 16 2006,09:53 QUOTE

The partition is set as a linux partition type but has the filesystem been built (with mkfs) try fsck.
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Posted: Aug. 16 2006,12:42 QUOTE

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.
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Posted: Aug. 30 2006,19:07 QUOTE

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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