Re: problem mounting /dev/hdaX

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Lloyd, Brett Y. wrote:

> mount /dev/hdaX /mnt  I get the error that the file system is not found in
> fstab or in mtab.  What does one have to do to get your systems file systems
> to mount?  It should be simple yes?

use `mount -t <fstype> /dev/hdaX /mnt`
unless there is an entry in /etc/fstab telling mount what fstype to try,
you need to tell it explicitly.

Steve Brown
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