I have not broken anything yet but I am about to, so I figured I would ask the
question first.
I am adding a disk to my system. The disk may have been previously formatted
with NT. I checked /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and the disk is there.
Do I first do a mount /dev/sdb3 /newdisk
Then run mkfs
I have not broken anything yet but I am about to, so I
figured I would ask the
question first.
I am adding a disk to my system. The disk may have been
previously formatted
with NT. I checked /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and the disk is there.
Do I first do a mount /dev/sdb3
Go for this tutorial.You will get some idea..
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4232/1/
Laxman
I have not broken anything yet but I am about to, so I
figured I would ask the
question first.
I am adding a disk to my system. The disk may have been
previously formatted
Of course you can format an unmounted disk. You can't have R/W access, but you
can format it.
$ fdisk -l (small L)
[you see partition table]
$ mkfs /dev/sdb3
[you should know what to do next]
In case it's been formatted... You know you're going
