This message is just information only. I was re-doing the VFAT32 hard drives for a server. I did the usual mke2fs -j <device> (ext3) and the formatting went fine. I was able to store files and read them just fine.
Due to an act of stupidity (it was early o'clock), I was forced to reload LM. After getting the server going again, I went looking for the hard drives which I had previously re-formatted. They were unreadable. ???? I knew the formats had been ok, however, no combination of fstab parameters would restore the drives to usability. Hummm. After careful troubleshooting, I found that the fdisk partition for the drives had remained VFAT32. However, the FS was EXT3 (verified by fsck.ext3). Gee, I did not know that Linux could force a VFAT drive into becoming an EXT3 drive. Interesting, no?! Anyhow, I fixed the situation by fdisking the drives properly and re-doing the format & fstab entries. Just wanted to share that tidbit with everyone.
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