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
>
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