you can't make a filesystem on a raw block device like a drive, you need to put it inside a partition. or at least that's what the convetions say. once you've backed up the data, my way would be to do this...
as root run "fdisk /dev/hdb"
delete the partition table, if it even exists.
create a new partition, primary number 1, and make it full size
set the type to linux ext2 / ext3 (code 83 i think)
write the changes and exist
run "mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1" to create the ext3 partition correctly.
use.
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