> I created an extra partition when I installed RH 7 on my Inspiron 4000, and
> I'm unable to mount it. I get a somewhat ambiguous error message that
> suggests that the problem could be the wrong file system, a bad
> 'superblock', or too many file systems mounted.
This error appears anytime the mount command was passed the wrong
arguments about the filesystem it was trying to act upon. This could
subsequently mean there is no filesystem header on the partition. If you
don't do a full mount call from the shell, /etc/fstab is read to fill in
the blanks. If the filesystem is fat32, then add '-t vfat', or whatever
fat32 uses, to the mount call.
> My questions:
>
> 1) What is the best file system to format the partition with for sharing
> between Linux and Windoze? I used FAT32.
FAT16 (12bit) and FAT32 (28bit) are the only two partition types that
DOS/Windows natively understand. FAT32 is your best bet, I'd have to say.
> 2) What is the upper limit for the number of partitions that I can mount?
> My shared partition is hda10.
No clue.
> 3) What is the best way to format the partition? I'd like to use fdisk, I
> assume I can run it from Linux, no?
fdisk edits the partition table. mkfs (I think it is.. try the different
mkfs utilities in /sbin and read the man pages for them) formats the
partition(s). Make sure your kernel has support for the partition types
and filesystems that you wish to use or else you'll just keep getting
those mount errors ;)
-Statux
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