Hi I have a firewire disk (120Gb) on /dev/sde with 2 partitions (ext3). When I access /media/ieee1394_sbp2-0030e010ee0c3856-0-1p1/ or /media/ieee1394_sbp2-0030e010ee0c3856-0-1p2/ and look at th log messages (dmesg) I get: FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sde1. EXT2-fs warning (device sde1): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sde2. EXT2-fs warning (device sde2): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 What has FAT anything to do with ext3??!?!? I did: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=512 # fdisk /dev/sde (and created a 70Gb partition + a 50Gb partition) # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sde1 # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sde2 Any info appreciated. Thanks /Fred