Re: killing ntfs partition

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:42:24 -0700
"daniel" <dan netgenetix com> wrote:

> i have a hard drive here that was formerly used in a win2k box and
> therefore had an ntfs partition on it.  i wanted to use it for my
> linux box so i went about fdisking it, blowing away the old partition
> in favour of a standard linux (id 83) paritition then then did a:
> 
>   mke2fs -j /dev/hdd1
> 
> so i could use the new disk.
> 
> but when i typed:
> 
>   mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/test/
> 
> i got this error:
> 
>   mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
> 
> wtf?  running fdisk again assures me that it's a linux partition on
> there, and mke2fs -j should have created an ext3 filesystem, so why
> does the machine still think that it's an ntfs disc?
> 
> thanks for any help you guys might have to offer :)

What does your fstab say it is? Have you tried mounting it with the
'-t'-option instead of a direct mount?

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