[COLUG] HD Partition Problem

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On Saturday  March 22, 2008 5:07:14 pm Rick Troth wrote:
> It may be something as simple as
> not having the VFAT filesystem driver loaded.
>
> >From the 'fdisk' report, that third partition is Win 95,
>
> so I ASSUME that you have a FAT/VFAT filesystem on it.
> If instead you have NTFS, well, there too, just be sure
> to have the right filesystem driver loaded into Linux.
>
> You can code /etc/fstab with "auto"
> for the filesystem type until you get it completely figured out.
> But for these two, that field should be "vfat" or "ntfs"
> when you get it nailed down.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> -- R;   <><
>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > I have just upgraded my Linux machine to OpenSUSE 10.3 64 bit and have a
> > partition problem on one of my hard drives.  Rather than risk really
> > messing it up by plunging ahead I would like to ask for help.
> >
> > Here is the problem, according to Krusader/Mountman:
> >
> > Could not mount device.
> > The reported error was:
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb3,
> > missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> > (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
> > instead of some logical partition inside?)
> >
> > fdisk /dev/sdb gives me
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x000bdd37
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1               1         262     2104483+  82  Linux swap /
> > Solaris /dev/sdb2   *         263        2873    20972857+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sdb3            2874       30401   221118660    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/sdb5            2874        5484    20972826   83  Linux
> > /dev/sdb6            5485       30401   200145771   83  Linux
> >
> > the problem is with dev/sdb3.  What should the fstab line to mount the
> > partition read?  Or alternately, how do I reformat the partition for
> > ext3?   The current partition is a hold over from a MS Win machine.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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I really appreciate the answers, but I am still confused.  I tried mounting 
sdb3 with vfat and ntfs, but neither worked.

Here is my current fstab:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500KS-00_WD-WCANK9498942-part2 /                    
ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/sdb1            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0

/dev/sda1	/sda1	auto	defaults	0 0
/dev/sdb3	/sdb3	auto	defaults	0 0
/dev/sdb5	/sdb5	auto	defaults	0 0
/dev/sdb6	/sdb6	auto	defaults	0 0
/dev/sdd1	/sdd1	auto	defaults	0 0
/dev/sdc2	/sdc2	auto	defaults	0 0

I stored quite a bit of software on the partition and I really don't want to 
lose it by doing something stupid.

Any additional help will be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance.