Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:18:41 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:

> Has anyone seen something like this?
> Here is the log of creating an ext3 partition on a device and lack of
> recognition as ext3 just ext2. very strange.

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Safely remove the USB drive and connect it again.

Is the drive automounted under "/media"?

If no, what does dmesg say when you manually try to mount the flash drive 
as root either with "-t auto" or "-t ext3" or specifying no filesystem at 
all?

Greetings,

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Camaleón