On Saturday 03 March 2007 15:08, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> What do you use to partition and format a new hard drive?
<CLI /on> :)
fdisk /dev/sdx# x for whatever device and # for the part no.
Read the man pages and writeups on fdisk if you've never used it. Its
the
best way to go, but you need to know what you're doing.
Use mkfs to place a file system on the new partition(s). mkfs is a
frontend
to the various mkfs.fstype tools under linux.
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