Re: Newbie question...

Tony Nugent <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Organization Linux Works
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri Mar 07 2003 at 18:50, "System" wrote:

> I have two HDD already installed on my linux machine. I need to reformat the
> second HDD (/dev/hdb) and mount it as single partition /backup. My second
> HDD has three partitions in it.
> 
> How do I go about it.

  fdisk /dev/hdb
	- delete the three existing partitions
	- create a new one (primary, on hdb1)
  mke2fs -j -m1 /dev/hdb1
  mount /dev/hdb1 /backup

> Thank you,
> 
> Tina..

Cheers
Tony
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