Re: [SLUG] And the fstab issue continues :)

From: Joe (mce@dalismustache.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 23:39:27 EDT


fs type should be vfat not msdos

-Joe

On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:18 pm, you wrote:
> Ok folks.. here goes.. I have a second hard drive on this system, I
> installed RH 8 (NULL) and it didn't recognize the drive and mount it. So
> I have to do it myself. Now here's the question I"ve edited my fstab
> with the following:
>
> /dev/hdb2 /mnt/windows msdos defaults 0 0
>
> I've then made a directory under '/mnt' called '/mnt/windows'. Now when
> I reboot I recieve the following message:
>
> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
> or too many mounted file systems."
>
> Now it couldn't be too many cause Mandrake 8.2 mounted this
> drive/partition on it's own. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks..
>
> Jason



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