On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:46:09AM -0700, Frank Reichenbacher wrote: > I'm trying to set up a second IDE drive I installed in my RH 7.0 box to > mirror the original drive using mirrordir as a backup for when it fails. > I am following the directions on p. 446 of the Red Hat Linux 7 Bible, by > Christopher Negus. > > I've got the drive installed and partitioned. That part is okay. Did you also create a file system on the partition? If not, you won't be able to mount it. > mount /dev/hdb9 /mirror/home > > produces a message from mount that I need to specify the filesystem > type. I can't find anything in man manual that even mentions filesystem > types except in print and list switches. In any case, hdb9 is a logical > linux partition within the extended partition on the new drive. Why > would I need to specify the filesystem type to mount? You normally don't need to specify the filesystem, but I'm guessing that you haven't created a filesystem yet. # mkfs /dev/hdb9 Then try the mount again. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
