From: Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca)
Date: 04/21/93


From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: ext2fs missing in fdisk
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 00:45:43 GMT

yeoy@a.cs.okstate.edu (YEO YEK CHONG) writes:

>Hello,

> This must be a FAQ, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Instructions
>say use fdisk to create Extension 2 filesystem. fdisk only has 4 types of
>partition for Linux, 80-83. Non of these are ext2fs. What's the deal?? I
>tried using Linux/Minix, but fdisk says "... unallocated sector". I used
>extfs, but fdisk say "invalid partition type" when used with mke2fs.

        it works for me with fdisk being a ext file system

marc