On 1/26/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nat Gross wrote: > > > What I fail to understand is that I expect to have 3 partitions. > > When you change the partition table with fdisk you only wrote back > usually one sector of data at the beginning of the drive, everything > else was left as it was before. That's why it was suspiciously quick if > you assumed it was writing 200GB :-) > > Your new partition table, and the old one that you overwrote, both > decided to start the first partition at the same place in the underlying > storage. Therefore for the special case of /dev/sda1, your new, > "unformatted" partition lined up perfectly with the first 190GB or > whatever it was of the as-yet not overwritten VFAT filesystem from the > factory that was living in the original first partition. Until it tried > to write to the end of it, which you used up on your other two > partitions, it looks like a perfectly fine VFAT filesystem in there. > > > Can I just unmount and mkfs? What about sda2 and sda3? Where are they? > > Yep. > > umount /dev/sda1 <--- thanks to Terry :-) > mkfs.ext2 -j /dev/sda1 > ok. just ran mkfs on sda1, sda2, sda3. Now, I notice this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0 It seems like FC4 decided to that for me earlier, since this is a usb device. Anhow, do I need all those options (for the new mounts)? Thank you all; -nat
