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schotty · 02-20-2003, 08:36 AM

Hello,

First fdisk it and make some partitions. Then you can format it. Then lastly you may mount it. The reason there is, that you need to tell mount what partition type it is when mounting. If you have an ext or resier filesystem, mount needs to know this. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab mount can read the fs type from there, as well as the destination mount point.

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schotty RedHat's Manwhore Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Milwaukee Posts: 41	Hello, First fdisk it and make some partitions. Then you can format it. Then lastly you may mount it. The reason there is, that you need to tell mount what partition type it is when mounting. If you have an ext or resier filesystem, mount needs to know this. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab mount can read the fs type from there, as well as the destination mount point.