New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Andy Green]

Nat Gross wrote:

>>What led you to the conclusion that it is VFAT?  I didn't see anything
>>showing that in your mail.
> 
> oops. Should have mentioned. Gnome System Monitor showed it as vfat/

> /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,_netdev,utf8)

AIUI the byte in the partition table that holds 0x83 ("Linux") has no
direct relationship to the actual format of the filesystem on that
partition, which could be different.  IIRC you set that byte at fdisk
time, but the mkfs.blah is done afterwards.  So a partition of type 0x83
with VFAT on it is perfectly possible.

Did you run mkfs.ext2 -j on /dev/sda1 yet?  If not, then you are looking
at the VFAT filesystem, or the first part of it anyway, that shipped
with the drive.

-Andy


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