Subj : Re: Partitioning attempt on a Maxtor 120G: wanted both fat32 and ext3 To : comp.os.linux From : markhobley Date : Wed Oct 27 2004 10:07 pm Charles E. Campbell wrote: > /dev/sda2 /mnt/maxtor/linux ext3 rw,umask=0222 0 0 > > I've also tried > mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda2 21021052 > > and changing the ext3 -> ext2 in /etc/fstab. No luck so far... Ok. what about: fsck /dev/sda2 does that reveal anything ? I presume that the events you have mentioned are consecutive. Did yo do the mkfs command immediately followed by the mount command ? Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hobley 393 Quinton Road West QUINTON Birmingham B32 1QE Reply to: markhobley at hotpop dot do_not_type_this_bit com http://markhobley.yi.org/ .