New hard drive

ishcoleobo · 04-27-2006, 09:23 PM

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?

tamoneya · 04-27-2006, 09:33 PM

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

ishcoleobo · 04-27-2006, 09:41 PM

fdisk through linux? When I try and use the fdisk command on that drive it gives me an error.

perfect_circle · 04-27-2006, 09:46 PM

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

tamoneya · 04-27-2006, 10:49 PM

posting the code always helps. post exactly what you typed and exact error messages.

ishcoleobo · 04-27-2006, 11:31 PM

mkfs.ext3 worked wonders! I still couldn't get fdisk to work though.

My_World · 04-27-2006, 11:51 PM

Then try and use cfdisk.

Code:

cfdisk /dev/hd*

Then:

Code:

mke2fs -j /dev/hd*