Consuming 1.0K bytes, Joel Hammer blathered: > OK, mount shows that my original disk is reiserfs. My new partition is > ext2, whichI just created with fdisk. There is no choice for reiserfs or > ext3 with fdisk. Does one simple run mkfs to get the file system of choice? fdisk creates a partition. mkfs.<fstype> creates file systems. Kurt -- Air is water with holes in it