Re: [LI] Does Linux need a filesystem ?

["Archan Paul" <archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Amit,
This error is flashed as u havenot made any file systemin that partition.
See the "mkfs" manpage for further documentation in this regard. The
"format" for dos\windowz world, formats the disk and makes file system in a
single go. In linux world it is little different.

>    "[LI] Does Linux need a filesystem ?"
Yes man, every OS need a file system. In Linux, "ext2" is the native
file-system. If u are interested further in this file system related stuff
get in touch with saugatac@xxxxxxxx


Archan Paul
archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.bigfoot.com/~archanp



----- Original Message -----
From: Amit <adev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: [LI] Does Linux need a filesystem ?


> 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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