I wanna run the above command but of course it won't work because people tend to create partitions which I don't want. I just want the bare drive with reiser. fdisk let's me delete partitions but it doesn't let me just specify "bare drive" upon writing a new empty partition table afaik. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
It looks like you want to format the whole drive with reiserfs. Unfortunately it does not work that way. First you need to create a partition (that maybe the whole drive long) and then format it. _____ < http://members.home.net/asolofnenko/ > Alexey N. Solofnenko. < http://www.inventigo.com/ > Inventigo LLC Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)
mkreiserfs /dev/hdb? You'll need at least one partition. Tim On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:01:10AM +0000, Purple Shirt wrote:
I wanna run the above command but of course it won't work because people tend to create partitions which I don't want. I just want the bare drive with reiser. fdisk let's me delete partitions but it doesn't let me just specify "bare drive" upon writing a new empty partition table afaik.
mk
On Friday 14 September 2001 5:00 am, Tim van Venrooij wrote:
mkreiserfs /dev/hdb?
You'll need at least one partition.
Tim
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:01:10AM +0000, Purple Shirt wrote:
I wanna run the above command but of course it won't work because people tend to create partitions which I don't want. I just want the bare drive with reiser. fdisk let's me delete partitions but it doesn't let me just specify "bare drive" upon writing a new empty partition table afaik.
As stated, you cannot create a partition as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb etc. First you must create either a primary or extended partition. You [Purple Shirt] haven't said if you're adding a drive or setting up a new Linux system. In either case, I would create a single extended partition on /dev/hda and then add logical partitions, /dev/hda1 thro' /dev/hda6 etc. Having a single partition isn't a good idea though. You should have at least / (root) and swap partitions. But I'd go much further and have / (root), /boot, /etc, /usr, /home, and /opt (also /var and /tmp). The advantages of this are: 1. You can reinstall the system without destroying the current configuration. 2. If a very large file is created it will only fill up one partition and not freeze your system. 3. / (root), /boot, and /usr should remain static and can be mounted read only (unless working as root). M
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