Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[Peter Smith]

SW wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to find out how I can go about making sure my new hard drive
>(/dev/hde) is correctly formated and partitioned. This was my 1st time
>adding a hard drive in a linux system and I had a pretty hard time setting
>it up.
>
>Now, I'm getting the following error when I try to run a backup script to
>this hard drive:
>
>Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
>Here is the info for this hard drive:
>
># e2fsck /dev/hde
>e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>/dev/hde: clean, 194/24428544 files, 2871129/48840246 blocks
>
>#vi /etc/fstab
>/dev/hde                /Backups                ext3    defaults        1 2
>  
>
Shouldn't this be:

/dev/hde1                /Backups                ext3    defaults        1 2
        ^?

>Can anyone tell me how to go about troubleshooting this problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>SW
>  
>
Regards,
Peter Smith