[ale] Problems with mount...

[H. A. Story]

Brian J. Dowd wrote:

>I have attached a laptop HD, using an adapter, as hdc on a desktop system
>(in an effort to pull off some of the laptop's data to the desktop)
>When I do a mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 ./mnt I can see the files from the 
>laptop's boot sector
>Then I do an umount...
>When I do a mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc2 ./mnt I get
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc2,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
>       instead of some logical partition inside?)
>Ok, I now know that I know nada about extended partitions or logical volumes
>or how to access them.
>Any ideas or helpful hints?
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Have you done a
fdisk -l /dev/hdc 

This will return partition information about the drive.   It is possible 
that /dev/hdc2 is the swap partition.

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        1217     9775521   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            1218        1340      987997+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3            1341        4988    29302560   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            4989        9733    38114212+  83  Linux


As it is on mine.


Adrin