Mount new partition

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> I used fdisk to create partition /dev/sda3 as a linux partition.
> 
> As I recall, I got a message to the effect that on reboot, fstab would be updated. So I rebooted.
> 
> I tried "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /orardata1" and got message "wrong fs type, bad option," etc. Then did "mkdir -p /oradata1" and tried mounting again. Same message.
> 
> Tried editing fstab manually and still getting the same message.
> 
> What did I miss???
> 
Putting a file system on the partition? (man mke2fs, especially the
-j option.)

Mikkel
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