Re: external HDD

In comp.os.linux.misc ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
On 2006-10-07, ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Heiming wrote:
[..]

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Hello:Here it is:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6708 53881978+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 6709 19457 102406342+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6709 19457 102406311 83 Linux

Has an ext2 filesystem actually been written to that
partition? You have to _both_ create the partition (with
proper type ID) _and_ run mke2fs to create the filesystem in
the partition.

Hello, I have used partition magic to make this ext2 partition.
Is that not enough? How can I check?

No, afaik it can't generate an ext2/3 Linux FS, it just set the
partition to type 83 which is correct for ext2/3.

With a real FS you should get a bunch of info:

tune2fs -l /dev/sda5

You want to run to generate ext3:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5

Or what your distro provides.

Good luck

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