On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, SW wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find out how I can go about making sure my new hard drive > (/dev/hde) is correctly formated and partitioned. This was my 1st time > adding a hard drive in a linux system and I had a pretty hard time setting > it up. > > Now, I'm getting the following error when I try to run a backup script to > this hard drive: > > Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table > > Here is the info for this hard drive: > > # e2fsck /dev/hde > e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) > /dev/hde: clean, 194/24428544 files, 2871129/48840246 blocks > > #vi /etc/fstab > /dev/hde /Backups ext3 defaults 1 2 > > Can anyone tell me how to go about troubleshooting this problem? I'm going to take a shot in the dark, and guess that you formatted the drive as ext2, instead of ext3. Try changing the ext3 entry to ext2, and remounting. Conversely, you could try "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hde" to format the drive in ext3, and try mounting it with your fstab the way it is. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
