Re: [webmin-l] the Partition local disk page

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Regarding point 2, are you sure that the partition type is set to
'Linux' ? If not, Webmin doesn't know what kind of filesystem to
create..

 - Jamie

On 13/Jul/2007 19:16 Scott Berry wrote ..
> Jamie,
> 
> See my answer below number 2.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
> To: "Webmin users list" <web...@li...>
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] the Partition local disk page
> 
> 
> > On 13/Jul/2007 15:57 Scott Berry wrote ..
> >> Okay Jamie,
> >>
> >> Maybe this is an error after all.  I did the following steps to try
> to
> >> creat
> >> the file system with no luck.
> >>
> >> 1.  I clicked on the Partition Local Disk moudle.
> >> 2.  Picked my Sdb drive.
> >> 3.  Found the number 1 partition and clicked on it.
> >> 4.  Found nothing at all related to creating a file system.
> >> 5.  I looked at a couple partitions before sending this out to make
> sure
> >> I
> >> am right and by gosh I am.
> >> 6.  I was trying to create a linux partition so I could load ext3 on
> it
> >> and
> >> format it but no luck darn it.
> >
> > There are three steps to creating a partition with a filesystem :
> >
> > 1) Create the partition, which should typically take up the whole disk.
> >   On a brand-new disk there will typically be no partitions, so you need
> >   to use the 'Add primary partition' link to create one. But sometimes
> the
> >   disk will ship with a Windows partition already, and you have to change
> >   the type of it to Linux.
> > 2) Create an EXT3 filesystem on the partition. This can be done by 
> > clicking
> >   on the number (typically 1) and clicking the 'Create New Filesystem'
> > button.
> Jamie,  I don't see create new file system at all.
>  3) Mounting the filesystem, which can be done in the Disk and Network
> Filesystems
> >   module.
> >
> > - Jamie
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