making a file system

[Igor Gueths]

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Mkfs is just a frontend for various filesystem makers. What you need is the actual program that creates the filesystem (I think those are easier to work with), like mke2fs for EXT2 and 
mkreiserfs for ReiserFS for example. 
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:34:40PM -0500, Glenn at home wrote:
> Thanks to all for all the help so far.
> I got brave and decided that I would use fDisk and make another partition on 
> my drive.
> I made it a primary, and I gave it #2, so I think it is /dev/hda2
> Now, I try to mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> and it tells me that I need to specify a file system.
> I tried
> mkfs /dev/hda2
> and the same with /mnt at the end, and in both cases, it says
> invalid argument passed to ext 2library while setting up super block
> I looked at
> man mkfs
> but I still don't know how to tell it what file system to use.
> Should I put something like X3 or x2?
> Thanks
> 
> 
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