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

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Subject: Re: problem that ext3 not recognized on 4G usb external drive freshly formated. only ext2
From: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:22:29 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20110722121840.GA31033@earthlink.net> (Mitchell Laks's message of "Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:18:41 -0400")
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Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu> writes:

> Rashi:/home/mlaks# fdisk /dev/sdd

Better use fdisk -luc as suggested in the warning.

> Rashi:/home/mlaks# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1

mkfs -t ext3 ...

> Rashi:/home/mlaks# mount -t ext2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt

What do you expect when you explicitly mount the FS as ext2?

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