determining patrtitions on hard drive

[shock]

Okay, RH6.1 was loaded on the 2Gb drive, what was on the 8Gb drive before?
When you tried to mount /dev/hdb1 you set fs type to ext2. Was linux on that
drive before? If not, that is why you're getting the error.
What fs type is on the 8Gb drive, if not ext2? Did you try to mount as type
msdos? or auto?
Once you know what fs is already there you should be able to mount it.
-JR


At 08:19 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Patrick Stoddard is qutoed as saying:
>Hi.
>
>I'm to help a friend by long-distance e-mail fix a problem on his Linux
>system.  He had reloaded Red Hat 6.1 on a Pentium system with a 2Gb
>and 8Gb IDE drive, used only the 2Gb drive since he didn't want to
>overwrite the 8Gb drive (where data and other files were stored).  Now
>when he boots his system the messages - also seen in dmesg - look like
>this:
>
><snip>
>hda: QUANTUM Pioneer SG 2.1A, ATA disk drive
>hdb: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA disk drive
>hdd: ATAPI CD-ROM V1.3, ATAPI CDROM drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>hda: QUANTUM Pioneer SG 2.1A, 2014MB w/ 40kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63
>hdb: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
>hdd: ATAPI 2X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
><snip>
>Partition check:
>hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
>hdb: unknown partition table
><snipped the rest>
>
> >From this snippet, it looks like the bootup process sees both hard
>drives and the CD-ROM drive, but cannot determine the partitions on
>the 8Gb (hdb) drive.  Is there any program or tool that can figure
>that out, so the partition(s) on that drive could be mounted and
>accessed, or does this mean the drive's previous partition(s) is/are
>toast and should be repartitioned and reformatted?
>
>I suggested that he try to assume one partition (hdb1) on there,
>and try to mount just that but when he tried this:
>
>mount /dev/hdb1 -t ext2 /dat
>
>he received this:
>
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
>or too many mounted file systems
>(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition inside?)
>
>That warning can cover almost anything short of the drive having
>a complete meltdown.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>
>TIA!    Patrick
>
>
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