[ydl-gen] USB Drive

[rev rob]

Solved!!!!!
  Many, many thanks to you all. I am now able to mount the external
USB Drive! (mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sam)
      First was pdisk for partitioning.
      Second was mks2fs for making an ext3 filesystem (mke2fs -j /dev/sda2)
I am very happy with all this new storage. I can't say how pleased
with the available space I have and the education you all have given
me.
  I'm sure I'll have plenty of others questions and maybe I can help
others as well. Although, I'll still a very green newbie.
       Thanks again to all!
            rob

On 1/24/06, R. Hirschfeld <ray at unipay.nl> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:53:26 -0500
> > From: rev rob <houseofshame at gmail.com>
>
> > I know there is a way for me to specify a certain file system with "C"
> > command. I tried ext3 and that would not let me mount it. (A little on
> > the mount. I created a directory in mnt called sam. So I think my
> > mount command should be   mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sam  Is this right?)
> > I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Yes, I have an Apple partition
> > map which I tried to initialize with the pdisk command "i" then I
> > wrote it with "w". For the Apple unix svr partition, I "c" ed that
> > one.
> >   pdisk is really cool and very fast. I think I must be missing
> > something but don't know what.
>
> pdisk doesn't actually create filesystems or format disks, all it does
> it write the disk label (partition map) specifying where the
> partitions are located and what sort of filesystem they are alleged to
> contain.  You will still need to create a filesystem in the partition
> (using mke2fs or some such) before you can mount it.
>
> Ray
>