Mounting HDD

Chris Botha jcbotha at cedar.org.za
Tue May 4 13:42:06 UTC 2004


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> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:20:17 +0200
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
> Subject: Re: Mounting HDD
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Am Di, den 04.05.2004 schrieb jludwig um 15:02:
>
> > Do a fdisk -l /dev/hdd
> > This will tell you about all partitions and the file system for each.
>
> > jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>
> Hu? Since when does fdisk care for and inspect partition filesystems? It
> does not. It only tells you which partition type is used. It does not
> tell you whether ID 83 = Linux stands for ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs.
>
> Chris, I suspect you still have no data on the freshly create partition
> hdb1. So run "mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/hdb1" to create a filesystem on it.
> Maybe use additional parameters you want, besides the verbosity switch
> -v.
>
> Alexander
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>
> --

Thank you it worked I mounted it without using the -t option is that OK?
But what is the difreance then between [mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1] and
[mkfs.ext3 -v /dev/hdb1],
the dot between mkfs and ext3 puzzels me.

Chris





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