Shouldn't you create an ext2 filesystem on that partition with mkfs ? george
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: > Hello, > > My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I > have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected > 'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 > (Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem is this: > I want to copy everything from my Linux drive (hdc) /usr directory to this > new partition but when I do 'cp -r * /newpartition' I get error messages that > report the drive type as UMSDOS. The files seem to copy, but it doesn't > appear that I have the correct format on that partition. Is any of this > making sense? My goal is to mount that partition as /usr to make use of the > extra space, but I don't think I'm doing something right. Do I have to do > something beside setup a partition with cfdisk? > > Thanks In Advance > > Jeff Miller > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
