Well, here is the long story. I did mount it with "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /tmp/p2" and was able to work with it. I remember that I formatted this partition as ext2 during installation. That's why I mounted it without given it much thought. After I messed up the upgrade to kernel 2.6.11, I tried the grub command to find my old kernel. That's when I found out that this partition was fat16, because grub couldn't read it. By the way, it seems that the kernel 2.6.11 from kernel.org doesn't like the root=LABEL=/ parameter in the grub.conf. I decided to do a new installation and format this partition as ext2. After installation, "fdisk -l" still says that the partition is fat16 (id 6). Sincerely, Frank --- Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lai Zit Seng wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 May 2005, Frank Chen wrote: > > > >> How much difference is there between ext2 and > fat16 > >> file systems? One of my Linux partitions is in > fat16. > >> I was able to mount it as ext2 and modify files > and > >> directories. Is it possible to convert it from > fat16 > >> to ext2 without losing the data? > > > > > > Are you sure you successfully mounted a FAT16 as > Ext2? You're probably > > mistaken :) > > > > Regards, > > > A question remains to Frank: how did you mount it? > Did he explicitly > said it was an ext2 filesystem (using -t ext2)? If > he simply used "mount > /device /mountpoint" , then he simply mounted it as > fat ... Now , if he > did mount it as ext2 (which can be easily checked by > doing a mount |grep > ext) , then I think he probably made a miracle ;) > > -- > Pedro Macedo > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
