On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Bill Lovett wrote: > /dev/sdb4 is Linux native, which is what I want. But if I do this:
Has it been mkfs'd as an ext2 filesystem? > mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt -t ext2 > > which should be correct, I get a "wrong fs type, bad option, bad > superblock on /dev/sdb4" error. Yet mounting with -t hfs works just > fine. What's up with that? Most (non-DOS) fdisk tools are non-destructive - i.e., they change the PARTITION TABLE only, leaving whatever data was in the partition wherever it was found. I'm guessing there was an HFS/HFS+ partition there before? If so, just making a partition doesn't make the filesystem, you still have to mkfs it. If not, and it's already been mkfs'd, then you need to read the 'e2fsck' manpage - you may have to try to find a superblock duplicate to try to fix the FS. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN
