Jeff Miller's question (below) was answered by George Kapetanios: After making the partition with cfdisk, you have to run mkfs to make an ext2 filesystem on it. Without this, I'm surprised you were able to write anything at all to the partition.
However, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW> Let me preface this by saying I don't know what I'm talking about, but I KW> think I choose "Primary" instead of "Logical" when partitioning a drive. KW> I'm not real sure what each of these means, but I'm under the impression KW> that Logical is somehow dependent on the primary partition. This is not an issue. In fact, the only difference between primary and logical partitions is where on the disk the partition information is stored. It has no affect on how you use the partition. Here's a more detailed description of the difference: The information for a PRIMARY partition is stored in the "partition table" at the beginning of the physical disk. But there is only enough room in the partition table to describe 4 partitions. To get more than 4 partitions on a disk, you have to make one (or more) of the 4 into an EXTENDED partition, which contains within it some LOGICAL partitions. The partition data for the logical partitions is stored in another partition table, which resides at the start of the extended partition. -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Jeff Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze JM> and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I JM> selected 'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type JM> of 83 (Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem JM> is this: I want to copy everything from my Linux drive (hdc) /usr JM> directory to this new partition but when I do 'cp -r * /newpartition' I JM> get error messages that report the drive type as UMSDOS. The files seem JM> to copy, but it doesn't appear that I have the correct format on that JM> partition. Is any of this making sense? My goal is to mount that JM> partition as /usr to make use of the extra space, but I don't think I'm JM> doing something right. Do I have to do something beside setup a partition JM> with cfdisk?
