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SmarterChild

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 35

[problem] how can i mount it?!

# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
       instead of some logical partition inside?)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

root@ubuntu:~#  dmesg | tail
[  205.714735] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  225.413936] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[  225.414057] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[  235.839267] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  374.316854] attempt to access beyond end of device
[  374.316864] sda3: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
[  374.316869] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
[ 2616.380956] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 2616.380967] sda3: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
[ 2616.380973] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [problem] how can i mount it?!

Are you sure it's ext3? If so, run fsck on it, see if that helps.

One more thing - you are using Arch, right?

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: [problem] how can i mount it?!

One more thing - you are using Arch, right?

If so it would be nice for my dmesg to show the times too sometimes it would be helpful. Any way to do that?

@SmarterChild
Why not try to mount it without forcing the file system type? Mount usually guesses right, it only fails to do so when things go terribly wrong or I'm doing something wrong.

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arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: [problem] how can i mount it?!

Show the output of "fdisk -l".
And "root@ubuntu"? Seriously?

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SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: [problem] how can i mount it?!

Try to mount by command:
mount /dev/sda3 /media
That's may help

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