[PLUG] unable to mount ext3 file system

[Josh Orchard]

thank you.  that worked.  odd to me though.  I didn't have to in the fstab.  Would
you now why?

josh

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> I think you might need to specify a partition number, e.g.
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>     # mount /dev/hdh1 /mnt/point
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> Josh Orchard wrote:
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>>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.
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>>What I would like to do is use rsync and move the date from the old disk to the new
>>disk.
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>>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.
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>>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:
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>>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdh,
>>       or too many mounted file systems
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>>when I try to mount.  I'm mounting these with this command:
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>> mount -t ext3 /dev/hdh /oldcomputer/disk1
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>>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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