On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > My question is How do I reformat my second hard
> > drive that is presently Fat 32 windows so that Linux can
> > use it for backup. I tried cfdisk but linux cannot see the
most likely your windoze disk is the entire disk and not partitioned ??
you can see what it is partitioned as ( assuming it is /dev/hdb )
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
if your system disk is /dev/hda ... your backup disk should be /dev/hdc
- if oyu have a cd ... put that on a separate $10 ide controller
( 1 disk per ide cable if speed performance is important )
you can simply change the partition type
# fdisk /dev/hdb
t 1 82
( change the partition type on partition 1 to type 82 (linux)
w
( save it )
# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
( format it )
# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/Backup
( it should now be your backup disks for all your mpegs
c ya
alvin
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