mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Having problems mounting hd.
(mount: you must specify the filesystem type)

If you have problems with mounting, then try this
Creating the partition is not enough to use it, you need to put a filesystem on it.

Code:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1

Then you can mount it using

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

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