On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:39, Dom wrote: > I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my > GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). > > I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next > step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under > root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and using the command new (n) to > create a primary partition with partition number 1 for which I only > used 12GB (of 80GB available). Also with command 't' I made sure the > filesystem is ext3 (code 83). > > I created a directory /music on which I plan to mount this > filesystem.
> and this is what I get when I enter "dmesg | tail": > > > SCSI subsystem initialized > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. > > > Please help, I'm new with all of this and I really can't figure out > what I did wrong nor can I find an adequate solution Googleing the > web. > > Can you see what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance! I see no mention of you having formatted the partition so. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]