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 to lose what is there
after you format it, don't you?
Good luck,
--
Luciano Espirito Santo
Santos - SP - Brasil
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Adding disk
>From: Joel Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>You have to mount it first.... You can't access an unmounted disk.
>
>--- Chris Swenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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
>Or do I mkfs and then mount it.
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