RE: Adding disk

> > 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.

> You have to mount it first....    You can't access an unmounted disk.

If the disk has been formated with NT and he want's a new filesystem, he has to 'mkfs' the disk first... He is - hopefully - not going to mount a NT-formated disk!!!

And please, do not format a disk using 'mkfs' while it is mounted.... :(

-Oliver