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Can't mount file system (ext3)

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Name: matte85
Date: September 9, 2007 at 13:50:25 Pacific
OS: fedora 7
CPU/Ram: 3500+/1Gb
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Hi!!

I just removed my HD containing a partition with fedora 5 from my old computer and put it in a HD enclosure and hooked it up to my computer via USB. It shows up in /dev/ as sdb but I cant mount the partition where fedora is installed. I can however mount other partitions on the HD, i.e. a FAT32 partition and the MBR partition, but when I try "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb3/ /mnt/old" it gives me the output: "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so"


Any help is appreciated!!
- Matte

matte85



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Name: Guy
Date: September 10, 2007 at 16:08:32 Pacific
Reply:

Are you sure it is ext3 and that the partition number is right?

What does:

fdisk -l /dev/sdb

show?


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