can't mount ext2fs

[Robert Dege]

Have you tried formatting the disk from shell?

/sbin/mkfs.ext2 --help

You can use -v to view any possible problems that might have been
encountered that the GUI's didn't display.

-Rob

> I tried formatting disks with both Kfloppy and Gnome Floppy as
> ext2fs, but then when I try to mount, the error message says wrong
> fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
> mountedfile systems.
> If I take that disk to Windows and run analyze disk from the
> Maxidisk program, it recognizes it as a non-DOS disk and reports
> no directories, no files [as opposed to DOS disk, MAC disk or
> unformatted disk].
> If I reformat to DOS, they mount fine. Why ??
>
> Scott
> Registered Linux User 261118
>



Dege

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