Hey, you've only made the partition, you have no file-system (in other words, it's not ext2 because you have not made it ext2 (altho i would suggest using reiserfs, but that's your decision)). Anyway, try these commands, and then mount it:
mke2fs /dev/hda13 e2fsck /dev/hda13 mount /dev/hda13 /mnt/sp_13 Cameron Matheson On 25 Aug 2001 22:59:54 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having a problem with cfdisk . I want it to rearrange the free space > into > partitions of the type I desire . > > I get default as "Linux" which does not happen to be the same as "Linux ext2" > ."Linux > ext2" does not get accepted and it defaults to "Linux" . It means that a > comand like > : > mount -t ext2 /dev/hda13 /mnt/sp_13 > gives you the error ststing that the partition is of thr type Linux which > fstab and > the system does not understand. > > Ironically , secondary DOS as a type can not be taken by the mount -t msdos ! > > For the former , I suspect that it is because the disk space is drawing to a > close. I > just have 400 odd MBs to carve out. > > Please help . > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Shyam > > "Quality can Never be Quantified . It exists by itself and Quantity might > hand it an > untimely demise if blown out of the very fragile proportions that constitute > it ." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
