Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:07:00AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> Everything seems to work as expected, except that the 750GB drive is
>>>> somehow getting mounted on the device, rather than on a partition: ...
>> ...
>>>> There IS a partition on the drive:
>>>> But my attempt to mount the drive on sdc1 results in:
>>>>    # mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /local3
>>>>    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
>>>>           missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>>>           In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>>           dmesg | tail  or so
>>>>
>>>> I don't really understand what's going on here or how the system got
>>>> into this peculiar configuration.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you understand the situation exactly:

Perhaps, Konstantin, you could take better care with pruning and 
attribution, there's nothing I said in the text you quoted.

_I_ would have chosen a different message as the basis of my response.


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