filesystem and mounting problems

[Geoff Purchase]

Geoff Purchase wrote:
> Toby Kelsey wrote:
> 
>> Geoff-lists wrote:
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>>> [4296011.463000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hde1.
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>> The fdisk and fstab look OK. As well as creating the partition, you need
>> to set up a filesystem. If you're not sure whether you have one, try
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>>   e2fsck -v /dev/hde1
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>> to check.  To create an ext3 filesystem:
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>>   mke2fs -vj /dev/hde1
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>> and use tune2fs to adjust the mount checks if required.
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>> Toby
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> Thanks, I'll check when I get home.  The command I used was mke2fs -j 
> /dev/hde1, I'll checkout what the -v option does seeing as I didn't use 
> it originally.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
Thinking further, I don't know much about file systems etc, is ext3 the best type of filesystem to create?  I've got three drives (2G, 80G, 120G) that I will be mounting on my server, I'll be storing files that range in size from 2k (html) to 13G (video), and I'd like to access the data from Ubuntu desktop and Windows XP via Samba.

Geoff