On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 05:05 -0800, Chris Norman wrote: > 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. Labels are irrelevant. You don't need a label. You do need a partition table, and you must format the partition. In a previous post you said you did "mke2fs /dev/hdb". That tries to format the device, not the partition. "mke2fs /dev/hdb1" would format the partition. To automount it, create a mountpoint directory somewhere and add a line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hdb1 /your/mountpoint ext2 defaults 0 0 BTW, you probably want to reformat the partition as ext3 (more reliable), so before you mount it: mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1 formats it as ext3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Working with Linux is like wrestling with a worthy opponent. - - Working with Windows is like picking on an annoyed child with a - - loaded handgun. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
