i have a dedicated machine for linux only. it has 3 h/ds hda is a 27 gig, hdb is a 80 gig and hdd i think is another 27 gig. when partitioning drives w/ cfdisk (cant use fdisk windows not on system) it only displays hda to partition. someone else said " Moving on, the reason cfdisk doesn't show your other drives is because cfdisk only works on one drive at a time. When you call cfdisk with no arguments, it assumes you want to do

cfdisk /dev/hda

Where /dev/hda is your Primary Master drive. To get to your other ones, you have to tell it explicitly you want to partition that drive. For instance, if I wanted to partition my Primary Slave drive:

cfdisk /dev/hdb

Or, my Secondary Master:

cfdisk /dev/hdc

Or, finally, my Secondary Slave:

cfdisk /dev/hdd

You just have to figure out what drive you want to partition, and you tell cfdisk which disk you want to work with."


of course i did this @ "root@slackware:/# cfdisk/dev/hdb" and it says no such file or directory.

is that how i acess the other drives? am i doin something wrong or should i do something else? whhen the cd boots it does display all 3 as being conected.

try: cfdisk /dev/hdb

(notice the space between cfdisk and /dev/hdb)

omg. lol all that fuss over a space.
thanks for pointing that out.

no problemo