On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:36:31PM -0500, James wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to add a usb hard drive to Centos 5.3. So far I have done > the following > > fdisk /dev/sdd1, added a new partition made it type 83 > rebooted the system > edit /etc/fstab add the line > /dev/sdd1 /usb/320 ext3 > defaults 0 0 > > mkfs -V /dev/sdd1 > > then mount /usb/320 > > I get the following error > mount /usb/320 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > > What am I missing? File system type I presume. Try this: mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090930/fde0ca9c/attachment.pgp