yep that's right i'm an idiot forgot to fill out the entry in fstab so i guess the os just assumed the drive was still ntfs
it's all working now thanks :) _________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. it eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. - johnny hart ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:43 PM Subject: Re: killing ntfs partition | 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 | -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
