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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Your assumption is wrong.  Type 83 is means
> the partition is Linux.  It does indicate
> an ext2 filesystem.  It does not indicate 
> any filesystem.  To put a filesystem on 
> a type 83 partition, you execute mke2fs 
> (or other filesystem maker).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>   
Ok, so I really don't know how to use mke2fs, but at a random guess of 
mke2fs /dev/hda1, it gives me an error message of
mke2fs: bad blocks count - /dev/hda1

I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, but I've looked through the 
manual for mke2fs and I still don't know what to do...