[LUAU] Formating new Dirve

[Eric Hagen]

Run fdisk, but realize it defaults to /dev/hda, IE, your primary HD.
Try fdisk /dev/hdb   Or: fdisk /dev/hdc

Then,
   mkfs -t fstype /dev/hd??
IE mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1   (hdb1 would be first partition, HD D:)
or: 				(your second HD, most likely)
				(/dev/hdb or /dev/hdc)



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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Chris Wong wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Derek J Podoll wrote:
> 
> > Ok I have two small question how do I format a new drive that I Added in
> > to my RedHat box and also How do I make the computer autodect the new
> > drive on boot
> 
> Errrr.. autodetect? It should already. Does your dmesg or your boot output
> contain a line such as:
> hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT1280A, 1226MB w/87kB Cache, CHS=623/64/63
> hdb: Conner Peripherals 340MB - CP30344, 327MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=665/16/63
> 
> Then it detected it.
> 
> BE CAREFUL!!!! I won't be responsible if you end up nuking your active
> parition.
> 
> Now to format it... .. first you need to parition it.
> As root, run fdisk /dev/??? where ??? is the new disk.
> 
> Or you might want to do cfdisk. your choice. I like fdisk but it's kind of
> hard.
> 
> then you mke2fs the related partition... that I haven't done quite yet.
> Looking at the man page... looks as simple as mke2fs /dev/???[1-9] or so.
> Don't know what type of disk you got there.
> 
> Then you have to modify your /etc/fsstab. That, is a problem for another
> question....
> 
> --
> chris
> slipping disks
> 
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