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Old 04-27-2006, 10:23 PM   #1
ishcoleobo
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New hard drive


This should be simple enough. I'm adding a new hard drive to my server. I can see the drive but there is no parition. I want to partition the entire drive (80gb) to either NTFS or EXT3.

Anyone?
 
Old 04-27-2006, 10:33 PM   #2
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i would suggest fdisk. Also i might suggest that you use somethign like fat32 as a partition since it seems like you are debating between windows partitions and linux partitions. fat32 will be recognized by both and should make your life simpler
 
Old 04-27-2006, 10:41 PM   #3
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fdisk through linux? When I try and use the fdisk command on that drive it gives me an error.
 
Old 04-27-2006, 10:46 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ishcoleobo
fdisk through linux? When I try and use the fdisk command on that drive it gives me an error.
What error?

Login as root, and type:
Code:
fdisk -l
(that's a small L not an 1) to list all the hd's and find which one it is (the empty one I guess_ (something like hdx where x=a,b,c,d on IDE)
then do
Code:
fdisk /dev/hdx
 
Old 04-27-2006, 11:49 PM   #5
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posting the code always helps. post exactly what you typed and exact error messages.
 
Old 04-28-2006, 12:31 AM   #6
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mkfs.ext3 worked wonders! I still couldn't get fdisk to work though.
 
Old 04-28-2006, 12:51 AM   #7
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Then try and use cfdisk.

Code:
cfdisk /dev/hd*
Then:
Code:
mke2fs -j /dev/hd*
 
  


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