On a test system I had one small HD with ;
L-M 6.1 and M$ with System Commander on;
/dev/hda. I find an old 400mg Drive lying around,
hook it up, get it recognized at boot, do the;
fdisk /dev/hdc and it shows everything fine
in fact it was a linux disk of some vintage.
So I use fdisk to, delete the old create a
new partition '/dev/hdc1' and attempt
'mount /dev/hdc1 /extralinux' for example.
Well it shows up in /etc/fstab but does not show up
with a 'df' and rebooting kicks me
into root command-line mode with a "bad superblock" error
I end up having to remove the entry in /etc/fstab.
An msdos style mbr problem? Can one remove that in Linux
without having to go to the ol dos 'fdisk/mbr'
Obviously I am making an elementary mistake.
The mans and Howtos haven't helped me this time.
I always thought fdisk from linux and creating
a new partition and a mount point
was how I did it before?
Please show me the error of my ways!!!!
I guess I have not, "learned from my previous mistakes,
therefore I am doomed to repeat them " :-)
William Bouterse
Juneau Alaska
