On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 04:45 -0800, Chris Norman wrote: > Hi people, > How do I format a disk for linux, I tried recovering my 114 gig I was having > the last lot of troubles with, but I am having problems with that too. > > I tried using parted /dev/hdb then mklabel bsd and then exit, that seemed to > go well. But then when I tried fdisk -l /dev/hdb, it said there wasn't a > valid partition table. How do I do this please? I just want 1 ext2 partition > filling the hole disk. > I don't use parted. (Some do but I never had the need.) Instead I use fdisk. 1) What I do is run fdisk /dev/hdb and create the partitions the way I want them. It sounds like all you need is one partition so create it. Then you should have a partition /dev/hdb1. fdisk -l should now show it. 2) Format the partition (mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1) will give you an ext3 filesystem. 3) Mount it at the location of your choice 4) Edit /etc/fstab to make it mount when you reboot Use to your hearts content. > Cheers, > > Chris Norman > <!-- chris.norman4@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> > Selling cheap but functional shell accounts. >
