mounting partition

[lymegreeen]

ok... so i used fdisk to create a partition for music only... and it shows up on the partition table as /dev/hda10

now i need to actually use it... when i go to mount this is whas happens

[root@localhost yoshi]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda10 /mnt/music
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda10,
or too many mounted file systems

when i include it in fstab... it says i have a bad magic number... and to use a different superblock... which also failed.

i'm fustrated because i'm new to linux and really want to learn... but for some reason i just suck at it...

someone please help, thanx

[serz]

You created a new partition, but you didn't give it a file system.

man mkfs.ext3

[Satanic Atheist]

As serz said...

> mke2fs -j /dev/hda10

That's a for a sweet, journalled Ext3 partition.

James

[t123b456]

If it's OK can I butt in?

I am doing the same thing and got the filesystem made and mounted, but only for root :o

my fstab entry looks like

/dev/hda4 /pub ext3 user,auto,dev,exec,rw,async 0 0

I am trying to use the directory as a pub place useable for all comers to do what they want.

Any ideas?

[dalek]

Originally posted by t123b456


/dev/hda4 /pub ext3 user,auto,dev,exec,rw,async 0 0



change "user" to "users" and see if that helps any.

User; owned by the user who mounted it. Root if mounted during boot.

Users; anybody can access.

Later

:D :D :D

edit: I can't type worth spit. Ooops. That ain't right either. Skip it.

[t123b456]

no joy with user => users.

man fstab shows it should be 'user' not users, but I tried anyway.

any more ideas?

[dalek]

Right click on the folder you mount to and choose properties. Give it the permissions you want.

Don't know if that will work or not but worth a try.

Later

:confused: :D :D :D

[lymegreeen]

thanx for you help guys... i'll give it a shot... i bought this freakin' red hat linux 9 unleashed and it's not really helping. i really want to learn and this book isn't helping much. :confused:

thanx