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From: Giovanni <lsod...@home.net.it>
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Subject: Re: why doesn't mount mount?
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:26:16 +0200
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On 09/08/2012 02:59 PM, Hul Tytus wrote:

> The command was changed to: mount /dev/hd6 / and the returned error
> message changed also: mount: /dev/hd6 is not a valid file system.
>
> Mount sure is picky... Any ideas, from the fsck listing below, what
> causes the invalid file system error? Or what might result in such
> error messages generally?
>
> Giovanni - thanks for noticing the wrong name. Any more suggestions
> from here?

You have to create the directory aux on the root partition, not in the
partition you formatted.

Mount command require that you specify the devce and the point where
it will be mounted.

Ciao
Giovanni
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