formatting a secondary hard drive

Bronzzy · 03-27-2004, 10:05 AM

I've searched the forums and nothing seems to be answering my question. I would like to know how do I format my secondary hard drive hdb to linux partitions for my file server.

Komakino · 03-27-2004, 10:10 AM

If your secondary harddrive contains one partition at /dev/hdb1 then to make it ext3 you would run:

Code:

mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1

Or you could use fdisk to split it into multiple partitions and do the above on each partition to make them ext3.

Redeye2 · 03-27-2004, 11:02 AM

Instead of fdisk, I'd say you use cfdisk.