[NBLUG/talk] Mounting a new HD

[Todd Cary]

Mark -

Many thanks!  With the encouragement of  Troy, I used fdisk to partition 
hdd and then I used mount without the Type.  Throughout all of this, I 
was wondering how/where one formats the disk.  Now I have the answer to 
that.

One reality check.  I have Linux Complete and Red hat Linux 4.0 books 
and both of them assume one is installing Red hat and using Disk Druid 
(or fdisk to partition).  I do not see any mention of formatting a HD 
(Floppy, yes).  Did I miss something here?

And in the GUI (GNOME) for Fedora I do not see anything about using a 
GUI tool.  Hardware Browser shows the HD, but there are no other 
options; Disk Management only shows the Floppy and CD.

Not being a Unix/Linux guru, my hope is for Linux desktop to become some 
real competition for Windows.  As I have indicated in other postings, I 
LOVE IT.  Get it running and you just about can forget about it.  
However, there is still room for putting a "pretty wrapper" around it.

Again, thank you for the help...

Todd

Mark Greeott wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 16:35, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
>
>>I have Fedora running on my system and there is a primary HD on the 
>>secondary channel (hdd), however I do not know how to have Linux mount it.
>>
>>In the GUI Hardware Manager, it is listed "hdd", however in the GUI disk 
>>manager only the CD and Floppy drives are listed.
>>
>>I am not too swift with Linux editors, but I did a "cat /dev/fstab" and 
>>the "hdd" device is not listed.
>>
>>Also, my Red hat 4.1 book speaks of "fstool", but that is not part of 
>>Fedora nor is it listed on my Ret Hat system and I do not see a GUI 
>>selection for mounting a new HD or qnything that would allow me to 
>>format the new drive.
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated....
>>
>>Todd
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>>
>
>For partitioning i use a program called "parted". If you're running
>fedora it should be installed. Here's a link to the manual:
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/parted_toc.html#TOC29
>
>Invoke parted as root and the drive as the argument i.e. parted
>/dev/hdd. From there you can type help to see parted's commands. You'd
>probably be interested in the "mkpart" command :-)
>
>Parted can also format the partition for you but I like to use mke2fs
>for that. So assuming you made one big partition on the drive and you
>wanted to format with an ext3 file system you would do #mke2fs -j
>/dev/hdd1. man mke2fs for more info.
>
>After all that you can mount the drive and add an entry to /etc/fstab to
>have it happen at boot.
>
>-Mark
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