The last lot of troubles don't matter, it's just this formatting. I seem to have fixed the problem by giving it a msdos disk label and creating a partition with parted and now I've used mkfs.ext2 to make an ext2 partition on it and it seems to work. How can I get it to mount automatically? Cheers, and sorry for the last post, I've just been fiddling round with it and happened to stumble on the fact that all my other disks had msdos labels. Chris Norman <!-- chris.norman4@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> Selling cheap but functional shell accounts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Systems Administrator" <sysadmin@xxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Disk troubles (again...) Chris Norman said: > Hi people, How do I format a disk for linux, I tried recovering my 114 gig > I was having the last lot of troubles with, but I am having problems with > that too. wht kind of troubles??..be specific!! > I tried using parted /dev/hdb then mklabel bsd and then exit, that seemed > to go well. But then when I tried fdisk -l /dev/hdb, it said there wasn't > a valid partition table. How do I do this please? I just want 1 ext2 > partition filling the hole disk. why dont you use automatic partioning and formatting..?? > Cheers, > > Chris Norman <!-- chris.norman4@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> Selling cheap but > functional shell accounts. > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
