trouble mounting partition on hard drive

[James Alexander Cook]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:39:44PM -0600, Brian John wrote:
> Hello, I am unable to mount one of my ntfs partitions.  When I try to 
> mount it I get this:
> 
> # mount /hd2_4
> fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format
> fstab: /etc/fstab:12: Inappropriate file type or format
> mount: /hd2_4: unknown special file or file system
> 
> Here is my fstab file:
...
> /dev/ad1s7              /hd2_4          ntfs    ro.noauto       0       0
                                                    ^

There's the culprit (just a guess).

- James Cook
  james.cook at utoronto.ca