[wplug] Mounting SDA1

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Mon Sep 22 11:17:48 EDT 2003


Weber, Larry A <mailto:laweber at switch.com> scribbled on Monday, September
22, 2003 11:16 AM:
> I am trying to mount a compact flash reader/writer to my system.  If
> I use a msdos formated compact flash card then:
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf -t msdos
> works properly.
> 
> However I would like to mount the card (msdos formated or unformated)
> with the ext3 file system.
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf -t ext3   or   mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf -l -t
> ext3 does not work.  I get an error message saying I have the wrong
> fs, bad option, bad super block. 
	Did you make the filesystem first with mkfs/mke2fs?  You can't mount
a DOS FS as ext3.

Don



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