hardware space size error

[Kevin Wang]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:03:19 -0700 (PDT), Bao Cao <pearlsmm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Regarding convert, what I did is: I used
> PartitionMagic to delete the logical drive of hdb6
> under Windows, then, I partitioned it with ext3 form,
> after that, restarted and logon FC2. The whole hdb
> consists of 3 drives, two of them are NTFS, totally
> about 100GB, then last one is ext3. Since now most of
> my data should be done under Linux, I converted it to
> ext3 avoiding of writing permission problem with NTFS.
> 
> I'm pretty newbie of FC2. I tried googling first, but
> it still not clear how I can deal with it. Any
> suggestion please? Thanks.

after editing the partitions, did you format the filesystem with mkfs?
 this will erase everything on the drive, much like dos "format.exe"
so save everything you need before formatting.

Only then can you mount it properly.

  - Kevin