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Offline Holmes.Sherlock

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Can't mount /dev/sda1
« on: May 20, 2012, 08:52:51 PM »
Hi,

What I have done is as follows:

  • Partitioned /dev/sda to only onle partition, i.e. /dev/sda1 using fdisk
  • Set the filesystem type to Linux
  • Created the /mnt/sda1 directory
  • Tried to mount is using "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1"

The error produced is: "Mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: Invalid argument"

Please help.

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Can't mount /dev/sda1
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2012, 09:01:17 PM »
First you have to make a filesystem.
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

Offline Holmes.Sherlock

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Re: Can't mount /dev/sda1
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2012, 09:17:06 PM »
First you have to make a filesystem.
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

Thank you a lot. It's working now. :)