On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:57:19 -0400 Randy Ramsdell <rramsdel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, it turns out it was being mounted as vfat. I have no idea where > that is coming from. Again, fstab is not set for this partition. I've seen users formatting FAT partitions with ext3. Try fdisk -l /dev/hdb ; parted /dev/hdb print as fdisk lists the partition types and GNU parted tries to detect the filesystem type.