Mounting Debian Partition Error

[downdogWoof]

Hi All,

I have Debian(Woody-stable) on /mnt/hda5, but, when attempting to open the mnt from the desktop icon, I get the following,

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems

Is this because Debian is using etx2.? Cheers.

downdogWoof...

[angor]

Try to find out what filesystem there is on the partition.
<code>
dd if=/dev/hda7 of=yy bs=100k count=1
</code>
You need to be root for that. Then type
<code>
file yy
</code>
In my case this yields "yy: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)". The error part comes, of course, from the incomplete copying.