Re: Unknown filesystem type

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:09:03AM +0100, Bogle, David (SAIC) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have added a new harddrive /dev/hdb to mys RedHat 7.3 system.
> I put 1 primary partition on it, 39GB, ext2 Linux filesystem. This was done
> with fdisk.
> I umounted the drive and ran parted on it. Things work fine i.e. print etc.
> I wanted to add a 3-4 GB fat32 filesystem on it so i resized the original
> ext2 filesystem and tried to create a fat32 partition (i have tried both
> primary and extended).
> It keeps reporting "unknown filesystem type" when i run an mkpartfs primary
> fat32 startMB endMB (where these are real figures)
> 
> Any ideas as to why i am getting this message?

Perhaps you're using 1.4.x, not 1.6.x.  "FAT" was considered one
file system back then.  So you would type "fat" and not "fat32".

Cheers,
Andrew