formatting hdb

epox111 · 08-05-2003, 10:52 PM

Help please,
I have red hat 9 installed on first hard drive and I have a second drive I have been keeping for windoze but now I have everything I need on redhat ,"and am so happy to finally get RID of windoze" I am trying to set up second harddrive for more space.
It has my first install of rehat9 on it so I have it mounted and working ok
But I want to know if I can format and just have it empty so I can use it for more space.
How do I format and so on..............

Thanks for any help

Tinkster · 08-05-2003, 11:02 PM

G'day mate :)

As for the "format and more psace"
look at
man mkfs

Cheers,
Tink

epox111 · 08-05-2003, 11:11 PM

Hey thanks for the fast reply ;-)
Thats the cammand I've been looking for ALL DAY
Cheers!!!!!!

Tinkster · 08-05-2003, 11:22 PM

Pleasure mate :)

And as for finding your way around in
Linux, there's NOTHING like man ... :)

try
man -k <searchterm>
and it will spit out a list of things that might
match (alternatively, type apropos :}) ...
If it's too much output, use less
apropos <searchterm> | less

If you want to search for a second
keyword in what you get as a list
in less:
/<second searchterm>
If it doesn't show, use -i to toggle case
sensitive searches on/off...

Cheers,
Tink

epox111 · 08-06-2003, 12:00 AM

Thanks for your help I now have a empty second harddrive....COOL
Cheers!!!

itsjustme · 08-06-2003, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
As for the "format and more psace"

Ok, no more BrewNZ for you tonight.

(your choice)
http://www.nz-beer-awards.co.nz/

Tinkster · 08-06-2003, 12:24 AM

LOL ... actually, I prefer wine, and usually
don't have any before dark ;) ... that's a normal
typo, doesn't happen too often to me, though ;)

Cheers,
Tink