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MaXimum SMOKE · 05-31-2002, 09:17 PM

?(anyone else) ?!? (Josh, I'm shocked

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Make sure you typed the partition correct for linux (using the t command in fdisk to a linux native partition like an EXT3 . The program will offer to show you a list of partition type numbers (probably be the l (small L) command and their types. After you exit the fdisk for linux, then you have to format the partition. In linux it is the command
mkfs think make filesystem, I'm going to make you read the procedure, so you don't accidentally format the wrong partition, ok? In a terminal type man mkfs that will give you the manual for the command mkfs. Its pretty easy, but it is every bit as dangerous as the word format on a dos/windows computer. Just about everything in a unix file system is a file, so create a directory where you want to mount this new file system call it what you want like say downloads if this was off the main root file system ( / ) you would now have /downloads (an empty directory) Now we have to mount your new physical partition to the new directory SOOOO... If your new partition was /dev/hda7 You open a terminal and type
mount /dev/hda7 /downloads OK, you are mounted. (manually we have to configure the computer to automount the partition every time you boot, or you would have to issue this command every time you boot.) I'll get to that, but are you with me so far??

05-31-2002, 09:17 PM	#4
MaXimum SMOKE Member (8 bit) Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 229	?(anyone else) ?!? (Josh, I'm shocked ) Make sure you typed the partition correct for linux (using the t command in fdisk to a linux native partition like an EXT3 . The program will offer to show you a list of partition type numbers (probably be the l (small L) command and their types. After you exit the fdisk for linux, then you have to format the partition. In linux it is the command mkfs think make filesystem, I'm going to make you read the procedure, so you don't accidentally format the wrong partition, ok? In a terminal type man mkfs that will give you the manual for the command mkfs. Its pretty easy, but it is every bit as dangerous as the word format on a dos/windows computer. Just about everything in a unix file system is a file, so create a directory where you want to mount this new file system call it what you want like say downloads if this was off the main root file system ( / ) you would now have /downloads (an empty directory) Now we have to mount your new physical partition to the new directory SOOOO... If your new partition was /dev/hda7 You open a terminal and type mount /dev/hda7 /downloads OK, you are mounted. (manually we have to configure the computer to automount the partition every time you boot, or you would have to issue this command every time you boot.) I'll get to that, but are you with me so far?? Last edited by MaXimum SMOKE; 05-31-2002 at 09:54 PM.