 | | | Adding disk | Adding disk 2003-07-25 - By Laxman Buneti
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Go for this tutorial.You will get some idea..
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4232/1/
Laxman
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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.
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> > 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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