On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 06:23:30PM +0000, Michael wrote:
> Hi
> I have created a partition for use with linux, it is of type
> Linux native. The problem is that I cannot mount it.
> The man-page for mount says that it should be done like this:
> mount -t type device dir
> so I have tried several variations of this ig.
>
> mount -t 82 /dev/hda4 /mnt
>
> but I just get an error-message.
Good solutions need good symptoms to start from. Record and report
error messages carefully. If using X you can easily copy them and paste
them into a file, then include the file in your mail.
> can anyone pleace help me with this
>
After creating the partition you must make a file system
which builds the basic structure in which to store the data
and manage the space. This is done with the mkfs command.
mke2fs could be used instead.
paul
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