Florin Andrei wrote: > 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). mke2fs is not a partitioning tool, it's for creating filesystems. Doesn't need to be on a device: dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ext-fs seek=$((4*1024*1024)) count=0 mke2fs -F -q /tmp/ext-fs and it doesn't need to be partitioned. one could mke2fs /dev/sda > > 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. :-/ > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list