Re: Mount/Mirrordir question

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Author: Bryce C
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Subject: Re: Mount/Mirrordir question
Did you format the partition?

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 14:39, Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a second IDE drive I installed in my RH 7.0 box to
> mirror the original drive using mirrordir as a backup for when it fails.
> I am following the directions on p. 446 of the Red Hat Linux 7 Bible, by
> Christopher Negus.
>
> I've got the drive installed and partitioned. That part is okay.
>
> I ran mkdir:
>
> mkdir -p /mirror/home
>
> The directory appears in a GUI file manager window, but I can't cd to it
> because its not mounted.
>
> mount /dev/hdb9 /mirror/home
>
> produces a message from mount that I need to specify the filesystem
> type. I don't understand why would I need to specify the filesystem type
> to mount (hdb9 is a logical linux partition within the extended
> partition on the new drive), but the mount statements I've tried (using
> -t) aren't working.
>
> Frank
>
>
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