Creating an ext2 partiton from an old fat32

kabads · 10-02-2002, 05:00 PM

I dual boot, but hardly ever use win - I've got an 8Gb fat partition that I'd like to turn in to my /usr directory.

I've deleted everything off it and typed mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda6 - and then mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/usr (/mnt/usr being created). However, it complains that /dev/hda6 is still fat and doesn't have write access.

This is all done in single user mode.

Have I missed something here?

acid_kewpie · 10-02-2002, 05:13 PM

you still need to change the fs type in teh fat table, use fdisk, cfdisk or something similar, and chagne the type there.

you really should think about using ext3 (the j flag) instead though

mke2fs -j /dev/hda6