are you using M$ fdisk? or linux fdisk? On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:26, you had thoughts to the concept of: > I have a hard drive which was previously used for > Windows that I'd like to convert over to ext2. But > when dealing with mkfs and fdisk, I'm getting a couple > of contradictions. > > When I first ran fdisk it reported there was one > partition and a fat32 file system on the disk, which > at the time was true. The disk originally had two > partitions on it before this check. > > /etc/fstab reports the disk still has two partitions. > is fstab a static file or is it dynamically created > based on how my computer is currently set up? Do I > need to alter it? > > I then ran "mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1" and it proceeded to > format the drive, which appeared to go ok. But going > back to fdisk, it still reports the disk is fat32. > > What am I doing wrong? I don't want to use this disk > until I'm sure it's alright. > > Thanks, > Matt > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger > http://im.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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