The drive was made with SuSe fdisk and a file system was installed with mke2fs. fdisk -l gave me following on that hard disk: /dev/hdd: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8944 cylinders, Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 1 8944 4226008+ 5 Extended Think that I did it right, no? ;-) On 7 Nov, Robert wrote:
How did you create the file system on the new hard disk? Here are some possibilities to check:
1) Just plugged the drive in and added it to fstab. In this case the drive was "pre-formatted" (in MS terms). And it uses the file system that was there. Exactly what type it is depends on where the drive came from.
2) Used the Linux fdisk to partition the drive. Then you had to do something to install a file system, such as "mkreiser" or "mke2fs". "mke2fs" means the drive should be ext2. "mkreiserfs" means it's Reiser instead.
3) Used YaST or YaST2 to partition the drive. In that case, you chose a file system type at that time.
Also, "fdisk -l" will show the types of each partition. It might be able to tell you the type for /dev/hdd1. You'll need to run fdisk as root.
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