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

kabads · 10-04-2002, 09:24 AM

is it ok to have one ext3 partition and the others ext2?

acid_kewpie · 10-04-2002, 04:58 PM

yes. no problem to upgrade the others too...

tune2fs -j /dev/hda2

make sure you set the fstype properly in /etc/fstab i.e. ext3 not ext2

kabads · 10-05-2002, 05:03 AM

cheers ak

jayakrishnan · 10-05-2002, 07:29 AM

may be fdisk will help

fdisk /dev/hda6

and change the partition type

acid_kewpie · 10-05-2002, 07:34 AM

yeah.. i.. already said that...

jayakrishnan · 10-09-2002, 06:05 AM

oh ok