On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:31:41PM +0200, Alon Barzilai wrote: > hi, > > I have a disk that had windows 2000 in his past. > I used fdisk to create some linux partitions on it. > made some ext2 partitions on it. > when I try to mount the 3rd partition with > #mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/tmp > it ok. > when I try to mount the first partition > #mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmp > I get the error message: > fs type ntfs not supported by kernel > however, > #mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmp > works. > > is there anything else I have to make so the disk will not remember it's > ntfs past ?
Incidentally, this issue was the subject of a long thread on this very list less than a month ago, look e.g. at the first post here <http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/03/02/msg00354.html> or at my reply here <http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/03/02/msg00380.html> The short answer: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxxx count=1 with the FS unmounted. Didi > > Alon. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
