[Ilugc] Gparted problem in Ubuntu 7.10

[Varadarajan V]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagopalr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  I wanted to remove mandriva one. So by running gparted I reformatted the
>  /dev/sda6 (10 Gb) ext3 as FAT32. Though the formatting was completed, when I
>  rebooted the system, ubuntu did not automount the partition (sda6).

have you defined in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sda6 during boot?

>  When viewed through file browser, the capacity of sda6 partition size is shown as
>  2.5Gb instead of 10GB. Windows xp shows the partition as FAT32 of size 10
>  GB.

What does fdisk -l /dev/sda show?
mount the partition and check df -h


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Varadarajan

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