On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Peter Smith wrote: > SW wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I'm trying to find out how I can go about making sure my new hard drive > >(/dev/hde) is correctly formated and partitioned. This was my 1st time > >adding a hard drive in a linux system and I had a pretty hard time setting > >it up. > > > >Now, I'm getting the following error when I try to run a backup script to > >this hard drive: > > > >Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table > > > >Here is the info for this hard drive: > > > ># e2fsck /dev/hde > >e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) > >/dev/hde: clean, 194/24428544 files, 2871129/48840246 blocks > > > >#vi /etc/fstab > >/dev/hde /Backups ext3 defaults 1 2 > > > > > Shouldn't this be: > > /dev/hde1 /Backups ext3 defaults 1 2 Not if the user didn't partition the drive, but formatted the whole thing. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
