new partition

[A Duston]

Gene,

OK, It looks like the only thing you missed is
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda9
Verify the syntax with man, as I am not handy to a linux box.
It appears that you have your fstab set up correctly once
you have formated the new partition.

HTH
Hal

Gene and Amy Dascher wrote:

> OK,  I have just reclaimed 1.5GB from my Win98 partitions, and I want to
> use it under Linux.  I ran fdisk to create a new partition, but every
> time I try to mount the new partition, I get the following message:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>
> So here are my questions:
> 1.  How do you format a partition for use under Linux once you have used
> fdisk to create that partition?
>
> 2.  How do you correctly mount that partition once it has been
> formatted.  I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hda9 /test  ext2    defaults   1 2
>
> Thanks,
> Gene