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I've been attempting to create and mount a "writeable partition on my harddrive for 3 hours....i keep getting the error fs type Linux not supported by kernel ......If i don't specify the fs type i get the error .......you must specify the system file type........
what am i doing wrong? will somebody plz explain how to create a mountable partition.?

Hi calmchess!

Could you be more specific in how you go about trying to do a bootable partition for us to be able to help you?

Have fun,
Regards meo

mke2fs /dev/foobar

thnx sadian unleashed.....figureing out how to format that bastard was driving me nuts......and another thing thnx for understanding and not asking a bunch of stupid questions.

original here.