problem converting to ext3 file system

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Ahmad Abou el-naga wrote:
>the error says: Unable to find a medium containing a live file system >>
> recently I have created an unformatted drive of about 29 Gb what next?
>
1. Please don't top post, thereby scrambling the normal conversational flow 
of the message.

2. Man mke2fs is your friend.  You have not actually built a filesystem yet 
on that partition of the drive.

3. Please trim old, no longer needed text from your postings.  We don't need 
to see it 117 times by the time the thread wears itself out.

-- 
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