paul on Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:18:08 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Setting up a additional IDE drive under linux


After using fdisk to create a partition, you need to put a filesystem
on the disk.  Look at "man mke2fs" for some details.


> I added the drive, I formatted the drive using fdisk, and it shows up
> when I hit "fdisk -l"  However when I try to mount the drive... "mount
> -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /whatever" it comes back with unable to read
> superblock... so what the hell is a superblock? How do I fix the problem
> and so on.

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