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How do i format and mount my drives. - alch - 2005-02-17
I am trying to format and mount 2 additional drives in my sistem. I dont know what is on hte drives and i dont care, i want to erase them and then mount them to a dir. When i try and mount them i get an error saying that it is already mounted or the dir im mounting it to is busy. I checked the fstab but there is nothing listed for the 2 drives.
How do i format and mount my drives. - xDamox - 2005-02-17
to format your partitions use fdisk as shown below:
Code:
fdisk /dev/haX/and then to make the filesystem you can run the mkfs las shown below:
Code:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdXHow do i format and mount my drives. - alch - 2005-02-17
yea so i formatted the wrong partition. turned out it was a partition on the first drive and not the second drive. so im installing again :P