That should be really easy: two ext3 partitions!

tofouz · 06-29-2007, 10:51 PM

Hi, thanks for your help i'm lost! i had 2 windows partitions. I deleted both of them and put Ubuntu on one of them. Now i want to format the other one to ext3 to put my /home and i get this:

chris@chris-laptop:~$ umount dev/sda1
umount: dev/sda1 is not mounted (according to mtab)
chris@chris-laptop:~$ mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sda1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!

syg00 · 06-29-2007, 11:05 PM

Stick a slash in front of dev in the umount ...

tofouz · 06-29-2007, 11:19 PM

Gosh you were quick to reply

Do you mean this:
chris@chris-laptop:~$ umount /dev/sda1
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
umount: /dev/sda1 is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

?

syg00 · 06-29-2007, 11:28 PM

Just happened to be passing by at the time ...
You're using Ubuntu - requires sudo

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sda1

Will need your password. Maybe the mkfs will need sudo as well, can't remember.

tofouz · 06-29-2007, 11:34 PM

cheers mate i really appreciate, it's all good now, both needed sudo

it's odd that Gparted did not allow me to do it with the mouse (which is what i know best!)

thanks again,
chris