On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:42:24 -0700 "daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a hard drive here that was formerly used in a win2k box and > therefore had an ntfs partition on it. i wanted to use it for my > linux box so i went about fdisking it, blowing away the old partition > in favour of a standard linux (id 83) paritition then then did a: > > mke2fs -j /dev/hdd1 > > so i could use the new disk. > > but when i typed: > > mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/test/ > > i got this error: > > mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel > > wtf? running fdisk again assures me that it's a linux partition on > there, and mke2fs -j should have created an ext3 filesystem, so why > does the machine still think that it's an ntfs disc? > > thanks for any help you guys might have to offer :) What does your fstab say it is? Have you tried mounting it with the '-t'-option instead of a direct mount? -- What we really need is a moment of science in public schools. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
