Did you run mke2fs on the partition to actually make the filesystem.
fdisk only partitions the disk but doesn't make the filesystem.
You should be able to just run mke2fs /dev/hdb1
Replacing hdb1 with the actual partition you want to make the filesystem
on.
MArk
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> Let me expose my hardware naïvety -- I've just installed a second
> hard disc in my old P200 at home and I find I'm not sure of how to
> get it to work with Linux. I thought all I'd have to do was fdisk
> it and put lines in /etc/fstab, but when I try to mount the
> partitions I get complaints about a bad superblock, or "are you
> really sure it's ext2?" (paraphrase). I've set the partitions to
> "Linux Native" in fdisk, which I thought was indeed ext2.
>> I presume I'm missing some obvious important step, because in the
> end I got Yast (SuSE 6.1) to set it up ("Use whole disk for Linux"
> option) and it spent a long time spinning the disc with the message
> "Installing File System" showing... (FWIW, it installed the new
> disc as /mnt, with /mnt/boot as a separate partition).
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