steef wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Robert Epprecht wrote:
Excuse this probably very stupid question,
but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask...
I've got my first external usb hd
which one?
and can mount it without problems as
/dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386). It's
formatted
as vfat and I want to keep a small vfat partition but for the main part
putting ext3 or something on it.
As this is my first experience with this type of hardware I want to
double
check on the list if I can do that using 'fdisk /dev/sda' and then
'mkfs.ext3'
just as on oldstile ide disks?
How can you go wrong? There is nothing on it. Cfdisk is a little
easier. 'cfdisk /dev/sda' and just partition it the way you want. Then
after that the mkfs command.
that's right hugo. however: this kind of escapades *must* be supported
by the bios. had this summer a rather nasty experience with an older
machine of which the bios did not support this kind af action,
so be prudent: it can be tricky.
Good point. I presumed OP just bought it, the reason I asked.
H
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