Maxtor One Touch III with Fedora Core

[linux]

It was formated NTFS.
I reformatted ext3.

Made an fstab entry -> /dev/sdc /home/me/REPOSITORY ext3 defaults 1 1

Now my machine does not boot properly.

It fails a filesystem check and I get the error "fsck.exts:: No such 
file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc1"

I am then prompted for pass word for repair, but I am unsure as to how 
to proceed.  What do I do now.... I entered the root password, and tried 
to edit /etc/fstab to remove the above mentioned entry, but /etc/fstab 
is read only and i can't save the changes.

Ed


Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Do I need to reformat the drive to ext3?  Do I need to modify my fstab?
>>     
>
> Yep. I got the same drive, and needed to reformat it to ext3. I used fdisk to
> delete the exsting partition and make a new empty one, then mkfs to format
> it to ext3 (not sure all that was necessary - mkfs might have been willing
> to wipe out ntfs and replace it).
>
> It has been working great for me.
>
> If you want it automatically mounted at boot time, you will also need to
> make an fstab entry for it.
>
>