mounting or formating hard disc

andy18 · 06-13-2003, 01:16 PM

Hi,

I have two hard disc on my linux 8.0 box.When I setup , I only format the first hard disc with all the partition .

Now I wish to setup one partition on the other hard disc to have only one partition ( /backup ) , how can I do that in command line as I installed the RH 8.0 in text mode only.

Thanks for the help.

Andy

manthram · 06-13-2003, 01:59 PM

first you need to use 'fdisk' or 'cfdisk' to make a partition on the drive. then you can format that partition using 'mke2fs' and then you can mount the drive with 'mount' command.

check the man pages for the options

andy18 · 06-13-2003, 02:07 PM

Hi mantharm,

Thanks for the guide.

I have found the article in RH website :

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...eate-part.html

Andy