Redhat and new Partition???

[hoov]

I have a duel boot with win xp & redhat 9. I created a new 4 gig linux partition in windows with partition magic But when I reboot to redhat its not there.I try to mount it . Do I have to manualy add it to fstab and mtab. If I do what should the last parameters be 1 1 or 1 2. Im trying to build a Linux from scratch system.
Thanx

 

[Goosemaster]

what kind of FS?

ext3, FAT etc.....

Adding it to fstab just means the system will know about it automatically, and can even automount it if you want. A partition doesn;t have to be in fstab if you don't want it to be..IIRC, but every time you mount it you have to specify the parameters...FS, location etc....

 

[drag]

don't forget to format it.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hd##

mount -t ext3 /dev/hd## /mount/location

as far as fstab goes, check out the man file for it. You right though. The 2nd to last feild is for the the "dump" command which some people use for backups. The last feild is 0=no fsck, 1=fsck this first, 2=fsck this eventually. All during backups. You should use the root partition as 1 everything else you want checked would be 2. So 1 2 is fine.

 

[hoov]

Thanx

Its formated as a ext2 file system as recomended by the lfs book.

 

[drag]

When you get a chance update it to ext3. It's backward compatable with ext2 and can be upgraded easily to from ext2.

Some improvements in performance and other stuff, but mainly in the fact that's its a journalling filesystem, which means that the filesystem keeps track of the changes on it. Makes it easier to recover from a bad shutdown and keep your data/partition intact.

Also make sure that your using the latest version of the lfs book. There are a few diffferent versions floating around...