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

[Mike Burger]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Peter Smith wrote:

> 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

Not if the user didn't partition the drive, but formatted the whole thing.

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