How do i format and mount my drives.

[alch]

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.

[xDamox]

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/hdX

[alch]

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