Thanks Florin, that worked. Would mkfs -t ext3 worked as well? On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:36:31PM -0500, James wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to add a usb hard drive to Centos 5.3. So far I have done >> the following >> >> fdisk /dev/sdd1, added a new partition made it type 83 >> rebooted the system >> edit /etc/fstab add the line >> /dev/sdd1 /usb/320 ext3 >> defaults 0 0 >> >> mkfs -V /dev/sdd1 >> >> then mount /usb/320 >> >> I get the following error >> mount /usb/320 >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, >> missing codepage or other error >> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >> dmesg | tail or so >> >> >> What am I missing? > > File system type I presume. Try this: > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >