Formating an external USB hard drive

xpucto · 12-14-2005, 06:08 AM

Hi!

I tried to format an USB external hard drive with

Code:

sudo /sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sda1

The result was
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
warning: 859 blocks unused.

Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
10260000 inodes, 20480000 blocks
1024042 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=20971520
625 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16416 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 22 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

But when I do

Code:

 mount /media/New_Volume

, I got the message:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

I use FC4.
What did I do wrong?

Thanks.

XpucTo

Bjoern · 12-14-2005, 06:29 AM

Hi!

I'd recommend checking your /etc/fstab file. It could be that your drive is still listed there with ntfs file-format. Open the file as root user and change the corresponding line to ext3.

Just my thoughts when I read your message....

Greetings,
Bjoern

xpucto · 12-14-2005, 06:45 AM

Thanks Bjoern! It worked!

Bjoern · 12-14-2005, 12:40 PM

Kein Problem! :-)