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I just added another IDE HD to one of my systems. It has MacOS9 on it, but I don't care and want to erase it and make it a ext2 drive. My current set-up has hda1 /boot hda2 swap hda3 / hdb1 /basement (a whole partition just used for storage) sda1 /mirror (3ware IDE RAID) I assume this drive would be hdc1 I dorked around with mkfs and fdisk but the system, nor I can make it point specifically to the new drive. I'm pretty sure I got the master/slave stuff right, though I'll check it again. How do I target the new drive for mkfs? thanks! ===== Daniel Woodard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
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Scheme Loh wrote:
I just added another IDE HD to one of my systems.
It has MacOS9 on it, but I don't care and want to erase it and make it a ext2 drive. I assume this drive would be hdc1 How do I target the new drive for mkfs?
First "fdisk /dev/hdc", and if it's just to be 1 partition, just make 1 primary partition, /dev/hdc1. Then "mke2fs /dev/hdc1"
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Maybe you meant Yast1? Everything I needed was in Yast1. Why I have this problem once a year is beyond me! :) ===== Daniel Woodard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
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