> What type filesystem is on hdb1? > > This type error was seen a short time ago when the drive was being > mounted as vfat, even though it was actually an ext3 filesystem. > > IIRC the poster in that case had used a drive that was originally > partitioned using M$, then all he did was change the partiton type and > formatted the filesystem. It mounted the drive as vfat automatially. > When he manually told it to mount as ext3 it worked. > > You might try unmounting it, then doing a "mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 > /home" to see if that gives anything different. > > "# fdisk -l /dev/hdb" and "mount" may also give some useful information > > Good luck. > Jeff > Ok, I tried your mount command, and also changed fstab to explicitly mount as ext3, but the same errors appeared HOWEVER, using fdisk (something I would have never thought of, thanks!) does give interesting information: [root@localhost /]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 16708 134206978+ 55 EZ-Drive /dev/hdc2 * 325 19457 153685822+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) The Fat32 thing hopefully is the issue, although the mount command didn't effect anything. I formatted this whilst using a linux rescue disk, using fdisk or mkfs.ext3.. (I'm still a newbie, so fumbled around a bit). Anyway, thank you _very_ much for your suggestions so far, hopefully not the only ones :) Thanks, Ed Mack
