[NBLUG/talk] debian wierdness

tc lewis tclewis at oreilly.com
Sat Aug 12 00:06:25 PDT 2006


>> On Friday 11 August 2006 17:52, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>> If I mount a partition in fstab it works fine but if I mount int
>>> manually
>>> I get:
>>>
>>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
>>
>> what's your manual mount command look like?
>>
> mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup
>
> I think it does pretty much the same thing if you specify the -t
>
> I really think I need to recompile the kernel. This one sucks. It's a
> stock debian sarge amd64 and it doesn't seem to have much of any modules.
> I wonder if I'm even gaining anything by using the amd64 strain on a
> server (web/file/mysql)?

what's fstab have?
is ext2 in /proc/filesystems?
sure you don't mean ext3?  ;)
is /dev/sdd1 really ext*?

-tcl.




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