New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Nat Gross]

On 1/26/06, Terry Polzin <fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:06, Andy Green wrote:
> > Nat Gross wrote:
> > >>What led you to the conclusion that it is VFAT?  I didn't see anything
> > >>showing that in your mail.
> > >
> > > oops. Should have mentioned. Gnome System Monitor showed it as vfat/
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,_netdev,utf8)
> >
> > AIUI the byte in the partition table that holds 0x83 ("Linux") has no
> > direct relationship to the actual format of the filesystem on that
> > partition, which could be different.  IIRC you set that byte at fdisk
> > time, but the mkfs.blah is done afterwards.  So a partition of type 0x83
> > with VFAT on it is perfectly possible.
> >
> > Did you run mkfs.ext2 -j on /dev/sda1 yet?  If not, then you are looking
> > at the VFAT filesystem, or the first part of it anyway, that shipped
> > with the drive.
> And you probably want to unmount it before you run mkfs.ext2
I notice that you and Andy mention ext2. Is that better for me than
ext3, or Resier?
tx
-nat