[mdlug] Mounting problems

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Joe Doehler wrote:
> At 06:11 PM 10/23/2009, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
>> Joe Doehler wrote:
>>> Thanks for the link. I dd'd a copy of the drive in question. That
>>> copy too works in the old machine that's running RedHat 7.2 - no
>>> errors. I'll put that copy on the Fedora 10 box and try running fsck
>>> on it as your link suggests, but I am skeptical at the moment. I'll
>>> keep you informed. FYI, trying to mount it read-only, as is, on the
>>> Fedora 10 box did not work either.
>> Did you try running fsck, from the Fedora box, on the partitions before
>> trying to mount?
> 
> No, I did not. I'll do that soon on the copy I made. Since this is a 
> copy, I won't mind if it gets messed up - I can always make another 
> one. Do you have any suggestions about what options fsck should use?
> 
> Joe.

Lokk at the man page for fsck.ext2. My prefered file system is xfs, so
my experience with the ext3 utilities is somewhat limited.