On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:06 am, Peter Rundle wrote: wouldn't of had the full disk space. > > Well that's my explanation for the "annomolie". But as far as I'm aware, > you should always do a mkfs on a new partition before attempting to mount > it.
thanks for all the explanations. I guess I made a wrong choice of subject, shoul'd've called it 'how come I managed to..'; at no time did I imply that I don't want to mkfs, I purely forgot to, and, 'as it worked', contined on my merry way, till I looked at 'how to do it' and, realized I missed a step; I've should've rtfm 1st and not after... -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
