Thanks, Mike. That was exactly what I was looking for! Got it up and running like a dream. -Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Pepe [mailto:lamune@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 01:57 PM > To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' > Subject: Re: external disk formatting > > > > Mike Markiw III wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read. > > > > I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting I do is at OS-install time. > > > > I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it doesn't allow partitions outside the disk. > > > > Can anyone offer any advice or assitance? Surely there must be a simpler way to format a disk! > > > > Thanks in advance, > > -Mike Markiw > > Oracle Technology Consultant > > Tier1, Inc. > > > > Mike, > > I'm going to assume this is a USB disk. > > USB disks appear to Red Hat as a SCSI disk. look at the /proc/scsi/scsi > file and it should list all the SCSI devices on the system. First scsi > disk is /dev/sda, second /dev/sdb, etc. > > Once you figure out which disk it is, run fdisk with that argument, such > as fdisk /dev/sda > > delete the windows partition > > create linux partition or partitions > > write the new partition table, fdisk will quit > > then you can make the filesystems, example, mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/sda1 > > after that's done, you can mount it like any other filesystem on a SCSI > disk. > > Might be a good idea to use the -L (label) option either during mke2fs > or tune2fs afterwards, since USB devices tend to move around if you add > others. (sda may become sdb, etc) > > Also if you add the entry to /etc/fstab to automatically mount at boot, > make sure it doesn't automount at boot time. Reason being- if the disk > is not present when the system boots and the filesystem is marked in > /etc/fstab as mount at boot, it will come up in single user mode and ask > you to fix the filesystem. If you don't auto-mount at boot it will > actually mount it later in the boot process, but if absent it won't > prevent the rest of the system from coming up. > > I'm sure others will have better suggestions. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
