I have two hard drives in my machine.

I can do fdisk -l and see both

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3657 29XXXX 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 3648 4863 97XXX 5 Extended
/dev/had5 3648 4863 97XXX 82 Linux Swap


/dev/hdb1 1 12162 100XXX bf Solaris


I originally had this machine running solaris, now it is using Slackware 10.1. I am newbie at Linux. I want to mount the /dev/hdb1 drive as extra storage on my machine (I.E. to use VMWARE to install a Windows OS).

I tried to delete and replace the partition using cfdisk /dev/hdb1. And it looks like it's working, but after I write to the partiton and drop back to bash and fdisk -l it again it still show Solaris.

How do I get this drive to where I can see it in KDE as a drive I can store data on?

Thanks,
Worm

fdisk chops the hard drive into part(ition)s with the n command. fdisk is then used to build the file system with the t command. Write the changes with the w command. After writing the changes, use mke2fs to create an ext2 file system, mke2fs -j to create an ext3 file system, mkreiserfs for Reiser file system, mkfs.xfs for XFS, mkfs.jfs for JFS, etc.