Ohhhh. oops. But sinse sda5 has the remnants of the mandrake system I 
hadwouldn't that mean that it already has a filesystem on it?
Is there a way to check if there is a filesystem on it?


root@bmike1:/mnt#

root@bmike1:/mnt# mkfs -t ext2 -j /mnt/sda5
mke2fs 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
/mnt/sda5 is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
mkfs.ext2: Device size reported to be zero.  Invalid partition specified, or
        partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
        a modified partition being busy and in use.  You may need to reboot
        to re-read your partition table.

root@bmike1:/mnt#
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 07:08 am, Scott wrote:
>
> I guess I am not understanding the question, but you keep trying to mkfs
> the mountpoint, instead of the device. In my befuddlement, it looks to me
> like you should use 'mkfs -t ext2 -j /dev/sda5' instead of 'mkfs -t ext2 -j
> /mnt/sda5'.
>
> Scott
>
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