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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Dennis Holierhoek wrote:

> When I typ;
> mount /dev/hda1
> BL says;
> Can't find /dev/hda1 in etc/fstab

This means you did not tell linux a default of where to mount /dev/hda1 so 
you need to specify where to mount it.

> When I typ;
> mount /dev/hda1 /hd
> BL says;
> VFS; Can't find an ex2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1).

ext2 not ex2

This means that the first partition on your hard drive is not formatted 
for linux as ext2.

ide0 (hda) is the master hard drive on the first ide controller cable 
(flat ribbon cable that goes between hard drive and motherboard.  ide1 
ide2 ide3 are the others if you have four drives on two controllers.

If it is a DOS (FAT32) partition
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd

vfat is FAT32 (the way the partition is formatted)

If it is an NTFS partition (Windows 2K or later) BL cannot mount it.

> When I typ;
> mount /dev/hda1 /hd /mnt
This does not look correct - you cannot mount one device at two mount 
points or maybe it is trying to mount two devices on one mount point or it 
is simply meaningless.

> BL says;
> mount; Mounting /dev/hda1 on /hd failed: Device or resource busy
> And it says the same when I change 'x' in 'mount /dev/hda1 /hd /'x''

> Can you help me out? I don't have really much knowledge in Linux, and 
> this week is the first time I heared about 'mounting'.

Search on 'linux primer' or 'linux introduction'.

> > mount /dev/hda1 /hd  in BL, where you can mount to /hd /mnt /cd or /fd
> > (or make new mount points yourself)

Sindi