[wplug] Mounting SDA1

[Weber, Larry A]

Thanks all.  Its been awhile since I have had to make a file system.  Its
working fine now.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jonathan S Billings [SMTP:billings at negate.org]
> Sent:	Monday, September 22, 2003 1:00 PM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	RE: [wplug] Mounting SDA1
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:26, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> > Perhaps I was not clear.  I need to mount unformatted compact flash
> devices.
> > After mounting I will format the media.  Some of my "unformatted"
> devices
> > have been formated with msdos.  I don't need to read the msdos data,
> only
> > reformat the compact flash device to ext3.
> 
> I believe you are misunderstanding what 'mount' means in this context. 
> A system mounts a filesystem on a device, so it would be impossible to
> mount an nonexistent filesystem on a device.  Also, the filesystem on
> the device is not something that can be changed with mount.  You want to
> use mkfs.ext2 or mkfs.msdos (depending on what filesytem you want) to
> create a filesystem on the device before trying to mount the filesytem.
> 
> In this context, you "format" the device with mkfs, you can't format it
> while a filesystem on the device is mounted.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
> TSFNKP, President and Chief Lackey
> 
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