How to Mount a Block Device on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • How to Mount a Block Device
  • Receiving 'must specify file system type' when running the mount command on a Red Hat Enterprise 5 system.  But when you ran fdisk -l, you could see device /dev/cciss/c0d1 did not contain a valid partition table.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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