Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas wrote:
 I think that "mkfs -t ext3  /dev/hdb1" will do the trick.



Thanks. Yes, that is what I was missing. Forgot to change the filesystem. I ended up wiping the drive with a disk wiping utility, just to see how it would do. 3+ hours for 160G drive.

Cameron

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