On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:06, Andy Green wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
> >>What led you to the conclusion that it is VFAT? I didn't see anything
> >>showing that in your mail.
> >
> > oops. Should have mentioned. Gnome System Monitor showed it as vfat/
> >
> > /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,_netdev,utf8)
>
> AIUI the byte in the partition table that holds 0x83 ("Linux") has no
> direct relationship to the actual format of the filesystem on that
> partition, which could be different. IIRC you set that byte at fdisk
> time, but the mkfs.blah is done afterwards. So a partition of type 0x83
> with VFAT on it is perfectly possible.
>
> Did you run mkfs.ext2 -j on /dev/sda1 yet? If not, then you are looking
> at the VFAT filesystem, or the first part of it anyway, that shipped
> with the drive.
And you probably want to unmount it before you run mkfs.ext2
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