[CLUE-Tech] drive formatting

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

Mike Staver wrote:

> So, here's my easy question - I have 2 SCSI drives in this one Red Hat
> 7.1 system, and I'm going to add a third.  I always just let the Red Hat
> installer format my drives and partition them up.  So, now that I
> already have a system going, I want to simply add a drive and format and
> partition it from the good old command prompt.  Is there a quick way to
> do this?


Sure is, use fdisk to partition the drive, and mke2fs to create an Ext2
filesystem. (Assuming you're using Ext2...I guess Ext3 is similar.) Then
add an entry for the drive in your /etc/fstab.

Take care,

Zonker
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