> > /dev/sdb4 is Linux native, which is what I want. But if I do this: > > Has it been mkfs'd as an ext2 filesystem?
Another idea: is there an old DOS partition table hiding on that disk
which (confusingly) has sda4 as HFS partition?
The Linux kernel uses the first partition table that 'makes sense', and
that's always been the DOS one in such cases (unless you change the
partition probe order in the kernel).
Michael
