\begin{James Wilkinson}
> 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.
yep, "linux extended" is the old "ext1" format
83 => linux ext2
82 => linux swap
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- Gus
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