Hi; Just purchased a new Maxtor 200gig usb 2.0 device. Before plugging it into the FC4 system, Windows was used to remove the windows partition. Then plugged it into FC4, recognized it ok, ran FDISK and created 3 primary partions on it. Fdisk synced it and advised to reboot in order to format it. Here is fdisk -l on it (after reboot.) # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 10240 82252768+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 10241 20281 80654332+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 20282 24792 36234607+ 83 Linux HOWEVER, the thing is ALREADY MOUNTED as ONE VFAT PARTITION! (Possibly even before my fdsik. I did NOT format it, and I can create folders in it. # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 29G 9.6G 18G 35% / none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 33G 7.8G 23G 26% /usr /dev/hda6 11G 3.5G 6.4G 35% /usr/extraData /dev/hdc 619M 619M 0 100% /media/cdrecorder /dev/sda1 190G 160K 190G 1% /media/usbdisk I don't want vfat! Either ext3 or reiserfs, whichever is better for database server. (advice?) 1. How did this happen? 2. How to fix it. (I sit broke?) Much appreciated. -Nat
