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

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