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VEL0CITY

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mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

I'm trying to install Arch on a virtualbox virtual machine to become familiar with it before I install it on my main system. I've created 4 partitions, dev/sda1=1007kB boot partition, dev/sda2/= 4gb root partition which I am trying to mount, dev/sda3=swap which I've already configure and dev/sda4=1792MB Home which I haven't mounted. I've formatted sda2 and sda4 in ext4, but whenever I run

mount /dev/sda2/mnt

I get an error message saying

mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

I've tried to view fstab with the less command but I only got a bunch of tildes (~). I'm fairly new to linux so keeping the explanations simple would be appreciated.

shulamy

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

maybe a space?

ezik

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

maybe a space?

ezik

Where?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

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Trilby

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

The above post should fix the immediate issue you are posting about - but there is another issue:

dev/sda1=1007kB boot partition

Is that a typo?  Because that's not big enough for a boot partition.  The kernel itself is 3-4 times that size.  100MB is a common starting suggestion for /boot.  I can do with quite a bit less than 100MB, but not that much less.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

@Trilby -- judging by the size the OP has created a BIOS boot partition, needed for non-EFI booting on GPT disks.

I don't think he will be mounting /boot to it (I hope not anyway).

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

That actually fixed the problem. I feel extremely stupid now.

jasonwryan

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Re: mount: can't find /dev/sda2/mnt in /etc/fstab

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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