On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:33:32PM -0700, Peter Dawes wrote: > On Sun, 14 April 2002, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > > > > Hi... > > > > I decided to delete my fat32 partition (sda1, with win2k on it). > > I did that with fdisk and added a linux partition, then formated it with "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1" ... > > Everything seemed to work fine... I can even mount it with "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt" ... but there seem to be some fat32 rubbish left because when I do "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" it seems to detect the partition as fat32 and gives this error: > > <snip> > > Check how it's listed in /etc/fstab... That's almost certainly it; mke2fs clears out the FAT superblock, so there should be nothing there for mount to autodetect. On the other hand, if /etc/fstab explicit lists the filesystem type as FAT, guess what mount will try to do... - Ted
