Mount new partition

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:00 -0400, 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???
> 
> Thanks.
You did not format the partition as a ext2 or ext3 partition. Look at
mkfs. All that fdisk does is mark the partition indicating what it
ultimate formatting will be but it does not do the formatting. 
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