Cool - I will give this a go. By chance is there a way to use disk druid or a GUI tool to partition and format a drive (2nd drive after install)?
Dustin On 2/11/03 4:45 PM, "Michael Mansour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto my computer screen: > Depending on what type of drive it is (ide or scsi) > you'd be looking at firstly partitioning or > repartioning the drive with: > > fdisk /dev/hdb > > for the second IDE drive or: > > fdisk /dev/sdb > > for the second SCSI drive. > > Once you've paritioned it with FDISK, use: > > mke2fs -m 1 -j /dev/hdb > > or similar to format it into ext3 with 1% reserve > space. ie. the "-j" turns on journalling, meaning it's > now ext3, and the "-m 1" says to leave 1% of disk > space in reserve - it defaults to 5% reserve if not > specified on the command line - 5% of gigabytes of > disk space is just way too much "unusable" space for > me. > >> From there, update your /etc/fstab file to mount the > partition as an ext3 file system on boot. > > Note: you could "label" the partition and include the > "label" in the fstab (with e2label) but that's not > necessary anyway. > > Michael. > > --- DuSTiN KRySaK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there - I installed RH8 on a system with 2 >> physical hard drives. >> >> I let Linux partition the first as it wanted, but >> now I am in the GUIO, and >> need to format the 2nd drive and mount it... >> >> >> How would I go about this? >> >> I had a look under system tools, and the is the disk >> manager in there - but >> I do not see my 2nd hard drive... >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> Dustin >> >> >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe >> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >> > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
