[PLUG] unable to mount ext3 file system

[Don Buchholz]

I think you might need to specify a partition number, e.g.

    # mount /dev/hdh1 /mnt/point



Josh Orchard wrote:

>hello,
>
>I'm in the process of upgrading from RH 7.3 to RH 9.0.  I have three extra disk
>space disk that are each 120GB that I had on a second controller in the old machine.
> I took them out and bought 3 new disk that I'm going to place in the old machine
>once the upgrade finishes.
>
>What I would like to do is use rsync and move the date from the old disk to the new
>disk.
>
>To achieve this at a fast speed and together I have another RH 9.0 box where I'm
>trying to mount one new drive of 120GB and one old drive.  I will then run rsync and
>have the drives ready for the new computer when it finishes.
>
>The problem is I can't get the old drives to mount on the new machine.  I have the
>new drives created and working fine.  I have tried each of the old drives and they
>all tell me:
>
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdh,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>
>when I try to mount.  I'm mounting these with this command:
>
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdh /oldcomputer/disk1
>
>I have tried ext2 and ext as well but same results.  I have tried running fsck but
>it says to try with another superblock if I have a ext2 partition and I have ext3
>journaling.
>
>any suggestions on how I can get these hard drives mounted?  I do have them backed
>up on Tape but it seems I should be able to just mount and rsync and that would be
>much faster being they are on the same computer.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Josh
>
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