Partioning external Hark Disk

Panagiotis_IOA · 05-19-2006, 11:14 AM

I am going to buy an external HD soon and I was wondering how can I partition it. As it will be recognized as a usb storage drive it will not be shown on cfdisk, is that right? So, what are the ways for doing that?

Thanks in advance!

Samoth · 05-19-2006, 12:20 PM

cfdisk shows whatever device you point it to. You should just plug it in. And type [CODE] cfdisk /dev/sda[CODE]. assuming you dont have any SCSI,SATA, or other USB harddrives in your computer that should work.

Panagiotis_IOA · 05-19-2006, 03:57 PM

Basically, my, idiot, mistake was that I was trying to mount hda1 to root while I wanted it on a new directory. Now it works fine.