cannot mount /dev/sdb1

On 3/31/07, debian wrote:
> Please,
>
> (testing system)
>
> fdisk -l responds:
>
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> Disk /dev/sda: 9100 MB, 9100032000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1106 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 34 273073+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 35 1106 8610840 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 35 424 3132643+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 425 618 1558273+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 619 677 473886 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda8 678 710 265041 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 711 1106 3180838+ 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 4355 MB, 4355472384 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 529 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 529 4249161 83 Linux
>
> ############################################################
>
> but when I try mount /dev/sdb1 /other debian responds:
>
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>

Maybe you don't have a filesystem created on that partition. If you
don't have data you need to preserve (I assume that's true since you
talk of formatting it below), create one with "mkfs.
/dev/sdb1" and then try mounting that.

> I have tried -t with all sorts of types, but none work. I have
> reformatted the disk, no joy :-(
>
> the same error is reported for /dev/sda2
>

/dev/sda2 is an extended partition. It cannot be mounted. You have
logical partitions /dev/sda[5-9] created in that extended partition
(see the start and end columns in the fdisk output). Those are the
ones that you can create filesystems on and mount.

> The contents of my /etc/fstab are:
>
--
Kushal

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