Ahhh spoke to soon... I have seem to have a problem the disk size is 18G however when I run fdisk it seems to only see 130 cylinders which relates to 1044244+ blocks. However there are 4 partitions on the disk 2 x 5G and 3 x 1G all formatted under Windows98. If I fdisk the disk under linux SuSE7.2 I can only create a 1G partition. Any ideas ? Regards Matt Matt wrote:

Wow thats great.

Question formatting..

mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb1 formats to e2fs.

How do you format to vfat ?

Regards

Matt

-----Original Message----- From: Jostein Berntsen [SMTP:jostber@online.no] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:10 PM To: Matt; suse-linux-e Subject: RE: [SLE] mounting and formating a second Hdd (hdb)

Hi,

Here is a short and concise explantion:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue38/cooper.html

Jostein

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===== Original Message From Matt ===== Hi,

I have a removable hdd it is seen by boot but I am unable to mount it.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /hdd2 wrong or bad block device I think was the returning error

Question

How do I mount it and always mount it when I boot up I think I have to alter the /etc/fstab file.

Also I would like to reformat one partition on the drive as linux (it has 3 partitions all vfat at present).

Also is there a control center command or tool for this ?

Step by step instructions please.

Regards

Matt