 | | | Adding disk | Adding disk 2003-07-25 - By Oliver Pitzeier
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> > I have not broken anything yet but I am about to, so I
> > figured I would ask the
> > question first.
>
> > I am adding a disk to my system. The disk may have been
> > previously formatted
> > with NT. I checked /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and the disk is there.
>
> > Do I first do a mount /dev/sdb3 /newdisk
> > Then run mkfs
> > Or do I mkfs and then mount it.
> You have to mount it first.... You can't access an unmounted disk.
If the disk has been formated with NT and he want's a new filesystem, he has to
'mkfs' the disk first... He is - hopefully - not going to mount a NT-formated
disk!!!
And please, do not format a disk using 'mkfs' while it is mounted.... :(
-Oliver
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