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timfayz

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From: Kazan, Russia

Registered: 2016-01-14

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[SOLVED] Can't mount partition (mount /dev/sda2 /mnt)

Hello, Arch community! I'm glad to post here (but I'm not happy to post an error))

Recently, I started to play with Arch running it on virtualbox using live cd. Now, I want to install it on virtualbox drive (a little training before I drop my Ubuntu ).
I've make the partitioning as follows (using cfdisk /dev/sda):

sda
| - sda1 150M, part.type: W95 FAT32 (b)
| - sda2 2.4G, part.type: Linux (83)
| - sda3 473M, part.type: Linux (83)

sda1 will be /boot partition, sda2 - /, sda3 - /home. So after running the mount /dev/sda2 /mnt I get the error:

/dev/sda2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error

What's wrong here?

Last edited by timfayz (2016-01-15 08:58:13)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount partition (mount /dev/sda2 /mnt)

Have you created a filesystem on it with mkfs?

2.4G might not be enough to hold the base system.

timfayz

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From: Kazan, Russia

Registered: 2016-01-14

Posts: 59

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount partition (mount /dev/sda2 /mnt)

Have you created a filesystem on it with mkfs?

2.4G might not be enough to hold the base system.

Oh..my..Sorry I've missed it. I thought this step will be a little bit later) Thank you! Anyway I try to hold it on 2.4G