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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: ext2fs
To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 12:45:13 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603030838.SAA01557@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Mar 3, 96 06:38:53 pm
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> I was wondering what is the correct syntax for mounting a Linux ext2fs file
> system?
> 
> I tried mount -t ext2fs /dev/sd1 /mnt
> 
> and it gave:-
> 
>  Wrong magic number: 8867 (expected ef53 for EXT2FS)
> 
> The patition I am trying to mount is on a 540MB SCSI driver set to SCSI ID=2
> and the drive contains 1 partition that is formatted under linux.

You are trying to mount the raw device (8867 is the DOS partition table);
use the correct slice for the partition.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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