[SLUG] Harddisc's & partitioning.

[Adams, Jamie]

I recently had lots of partitioning fun with windows partitions :-/

I used a utility from GNU called Parted, which can detect, create,
resize, copy and check fat partitions. You can download parted from: 

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/

Worked for me..

Then you need to use a command like "mk2fs /dev/hdb" and this will
create an ext2 filesystem on the disk. Check the manpage on mk2fs for
more details.

HTH
Jamie



-----Original Message-----
From: Al Girling [mailto:al21 at firenet.uk.com] 
Sent: 04 February 2003 00:06
To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [SLUG] Harddisc's & partitioning.

Hi,

It's about time I sorted out the 2nd harddrive in my machine.  This
drive is a 1.6Gb disc which according to fdisk currently looks like;

Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3140 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      3140   1582528+   b  Win95 FAT32

Now as I understand it, the Linux version of fdisk is unable to do
anything to Win95 FAT32.  So can anybody tell me how to format this disc
so that I might use it.

Cheers

Al


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