On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Stephen Graham generated:
>I am able to partition this drive as a Linux (type 83 in cfdisk) partition,
>but not as an Linux Extended (ext2 - type 85 in cfdisk) partition. I want
>it all in one ext2 partition if possible - the other drives are 34Gb ones
>divided into ~10Gb partitions. I used cfdisk for the partitioning of these
>other drives.
>
>Is there any reason why this may not be working for me?
Because cfdisk is confusing things.
Type 83 is what you want. Once you've created the partition with type
83, you use mke2fs /dev/whatever to create the ext2 filesystem.
man mke2fs for more options.
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