[CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

Fri Jan 4 01:12:06 UTC 2008
Anup Shukla <anup.shkl at gmail.com>

Tim McGeary wrote:
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1     91201 732572001    7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> This is definitely the drive.  So when I try to use Webmin to mount and 
> partition device /dev/sda (and also tried /dev/sda2) as a New Linux 
> Native Filesystem (ext3), I get the error of:
> 
> Failed to save mount : Mount failed :
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> So I'm guessing I'm using the wrong file system type.  What should I use 
> instead of ext3?
> 

Its NTFS !

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-June/048553.html

Hope this helps.