[LI] Does Linux need a filesystem ?

[Amit <adev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear friends,
	I am a linux user for quite some time and it is only recently that I noticed an undelievable thing about Linux.
		Well I had some documents in my system which I decided to store in a separate partition in my disk just for safety's sake.So I fired 
up fdisk, created a new partition with id-83 (Linux), and moved all my docs there.
		Then the problems started - I tried to mount it but failed miserably.Anyway I did mount it with a rather naive command.After that I 
was using that partition naturally for some days.Once I tried to run fsck on that drive and it greeted me with an error message which made me realize that I 
had  NOT CREATED A FILESYSTEM  on that drive.
		Can anyone out there suggest a reason on how this could have happened ? Is it a feature of Linux - I don't think you can use a drive 
without formatting on  any other OS.    

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