RE: /dev/hda3 is not a block device

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Let's get some information first. How about doing an fdisk -l /dev/hda.
What filesystem type did you setup on /dev/hda?
Try doing an 'fsck /dev/hda3' first.
Try mounting without using fstab: mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3



>-----Original Message-----
>From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Bob Goodwin
>Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:29 PM
>To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: /dev/hda3 is not a block device
>
>I have just reinstalled RH9 on /dev/hdb and would like to be able to
>extract some configuration and data files from /hda3 which contained my
>previous RH9 installation. However when I try to mount it I get an error
>message:
>
># mount /dev/hda3
>mount: /dev/hda3 is not a block device
>
>fdisk -p /dev/hda  lists the partiton as still there. Nothing seems to
>have changed on that drive. The new installation works fine but I would
>like to be able to take a few files from the first drive.
>
>I created /mnt/hda3 and have messed with /etc/fstab but nothing seems to
>help.  There's something happening that I'm not aware of! My ignorance
>is showing.  Can anyone see what's wrong?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Va.   w2bod
>
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