Hello Kefka, on Thursday, August 17, 2000 at 19:14:47 -0400, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:

Hi, and thanks ahead of time for any help.

Here's my problem and how it started: /dev/hda = Maxtor 7200 RPM 20 GB /dev/hdb = WD 5200 RPM 2 GB

I had windows on hda mandrake 7.0 on hdb

erased mandrake, formatted hdb to FAT32 backed up files on to hdb erased hda put suse 6.3 on which I'm using now.

I want to mount hdb to /hdb so I can access those files.

Here's my /etc/fstab

## Modified by Kfstab 0.4.0 ## Copyright Dirk Holtwick, Andreas Reuter, 1998, 1999

#### /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 #### /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 #### /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #### /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 #### /dev/hdb5 /hdb vfat defaults 0 0 #### none /proc proc defaults 0 0 ####-Í( /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

Output of mount /hdb

root@Heartlands:/ > mount /hdb mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)

Output of fdisk:

root@Heartlands:/ > fdisk /dev/hdb Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5

Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 767 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb2 4 767 3080448 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 464891 397177 1874460675+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

I have messed around with it. Tried using different partitions of hdb all to no avail.

Any help would be vastly appreciated.

Thanks

According to the output of fdisk, it seems that you have formatted hdb5 in HPFS or NTFS. You should put ntfs in your fstab instead of vfat. Regards... -- Jean-François Bocquet == Error is not forever, hope for right+ |== ICQ: 69968770 ===================== Darkness is not the opposite of light| |== http://tns01.free.fr ========== -But only absence- day will follow night.| +-- Linux User #177410 --------------------------------------------*-- Lowell+ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq