Waht is up with mount?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:57:19 -0400
Randy Ramsdell <rramsdel at comcast.xxx> wrote:

> Well, it turns out it was being mounted as vfat. I have no idea where 
> that is coming from. Again, fstab is not set for this partition.

I've seen users formatting FAT partitions with ext3. Try

  fdisk -l /dev/hdb ; parted /dev/hdb print
 
as fdisk lists the partition types and GNU parted tries to detect the
filesystem type.