From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp4.cableone.net ([24.116.0.230] helo=S4.cableone.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DTtc9-0007HG-00 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 23:34:57 -0400 Received: from desktop (unverified [24.119.159.108]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 18619574 for ; Thu, 05 May 2005 20:50:44 -0700 Message-ID: <03d601c551ec$89d6e1e0$6a00a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn at home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 22:34:40 -0500 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 15, in=28, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.159.108 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Subject: making a file system X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 03:34:58 -0000 Thanks to all for all the help so far. I got brave and decided that I would use fDisk and make another partition on my drive. I made it a primary, and I gave it #2, so I think it is /dev/hda2 Now, I try to mount /dev/hda2 /mnt and it tells me that I need to specify a file system. I tried mkfs /dev/hda2 and the same with /mnt at the end, and in both cases, it says invalid argument passed to ext 2library while setting up super block I looked at man mkfs but I still don't know how to tell it what file system to use. Should I put something like X3 or x2? Thanks