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Mounting disks in centos 5.3, redirecting folders to other drives

Hi there, centos 5,3 x64 running on ESX.

fdisk output:

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

how I am mounting stuff:

Code:

echo -ne "n\np\n1\n\n\nw\n" | fdisk /dev/sdb

 mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb

mkdir /media/tmp

echo "/dev/sdb  /media/tmp  ext3  defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

mount -a

but then when I do an fdisk -l I get this:

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes



Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

This occurs even on a reboot.

Once I get that (and other) partitions mounted I would like to point /tmp at one, /home at another and /var/log at the third.
How would I do this?

Thanks!

Well you aren't trying to mount a partition (that would be something like /dev/sda1). Have you partitioned and formatted the drive? Note that you format partitions, not devices, even if you only put one partition on it.

Look into using fdisk to partition it, them try mkfs on the partition or partitions you made.