John Summerfield wrote: > > There's a field called "type" You don't want it set to "mountable > filesystem" - commonly called hpfs/ntfs. > > Use fdisk to list the partitions and see. Also, I think XP plays games > with the space, reserves some outside partitions. It would be nice if mke2fs could look at the partition type (if it's a true disk partition, and not a file mounted -o loop or something like that) and give a warning if the partition type is not 83 (Ext2/3). I guess that would complicate the application logic quite a bit, but I lost count how many times I reformatted a partition and forgot to kick the partition type with fdisk. :-/ -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/