[wplug] Mounting SDA1

[Weber, Larry A]

Perhaps I was not clear.  I need to mount unformatted compact flash devices.
After mounting I will format the media.  Some of my "unformatted" devices
have been formated with msdos.  I don't need to read the msdos data, only
reformat the compact flash device to ext3.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Vanco, Donald [SMTP:VANCOD at pios.com]
> Sent:	Monday, September 22, 2003 11:18 AM
> To:	'wplug at wplug.org'
> Subject:	RE: [wplug] Mounting SDA1
> 
> 
> 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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