RE: Adding disk

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
> > > 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
>
>
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