On Thursday 23 February 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Last night, I've added a 2nd IDE HD to a RH73; > > I've fdisked it as primary type 83, then, mounted as /mnt/hd2 > then, started copying files to it > > subsequently, I noticed that I was supposed to 'mkfs' after partitioning; > so, I've moved all the already copied files, and, 'mkfs' the new hard > drive, then, moved the files back to it > > curious now, the disk appeared to work fine after 'fdisk' and before > mkfs... what gives ?
With old systems sometimes fdisk was not able to read the partition table that was written. You should have seen a message to that effect, and that you need to reboot to read it. The bottom line: After a successfull fdisk there are no mountable partitions. THE END. so until you mkfs the disk you cannot mount or use a filesystem. When it seems to work everything is good (cached) until you reboot and then you have an unmountable partition, bad superblock, jump off a high place. Cheers James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
