Thanks!  I didn't know about this.  I didn't see anything on it in the man
or HOWTO's.  Everything seems to assume that the installation software will
take care of it for you.

At 07:31 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
>after using cfdisk or fdisk to partition the drive, you need to make the
>ext2 filesystem on each partition before mounting it.
>
>/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb5
>
>Jyan-Min Fang
>
>"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth"
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>On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Stephen King wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to add a drive to /dev/hdb.  I thought it went fine, with
>> cfdisk, making the desired partitions and so on, but none of them are
>> recognised by mount.  They are listed by cfdisk as native linux (83)
>> partitions, but mounting them with, say...
>> 
>> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /disk2
>> 
>> results in the usual error of ...
>> 
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5,
>>        or too many mounted file systems
>> 
>> Well, there are only five mounted filesystems, the disk doesn't have a bad
>> superblock (it doesn't seem to have any according to fsck.ext2) and I don't
>> think there are any bad options in that line.
>> 
>> Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
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