Re: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition

On Saturday 15 October 2005 09:08, linuxls02 wrote:
> Good morning, I am trying to add a partition to my Linux system.=A0 I a=
m
> trying to create a partition on a drive that already has some smaller
> partitions on it.=A0 I was able to create the partition, but when I try=
 to
> mount it on /temp I get that /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device.
>
Did you create a file system on the partition with mkfs? Try man mkfs for=
=20
details but a simple command would be

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3

--=20
Thanks,

John

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