Thanks to all for all the help so far. I got brave and decided that I would use fDisk and make another partition on my drive. I made it a primary, and I gave it #2, so I think it is /dev/hda2 Now, I try to mount /dev/hda2 /mnt and it tells me that I need to specify a file system. I tried mkfs /dev/hda2 and the same with /mnt at the end, and in both cases, it says invalid argument passed to ext 2library while setting up super block I looked at man mkfs but I still don't know how to tell it what file system to use. Should I put something like X3 or x2? Thanks