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Quote:> How would you format/slice/newfs/mount a disk on Linux. ?  currently
> im running Red Hat 8 on Intel.
> On Sun Solaris I ll normally attached the disk run devfsadm, format
> -partition-label newfs the slice, and then mount whatever directory I
> would like to use.

Partitioning-- "cfdisk DISK", where DISK is the device name of the whole
disk you want to partition.  DISK is /dev/hda for the IDE disk on the
primary master, /dev/hdb for primary slave, /dev/hdc for secondary
master, etcetera.  DISK is /dev/sda for the first SCSI disk, /dev/sdb
for the second, etcetera.

Making a filesystem (newfs)-- "mke2fs -j PARTITION" or "mkreiserfs
PARTITION".  PARTITION is typically something like /dev/hda1 or
/dev/sda5 .  If you're not familiar with the way the x86 handles
partitions, you can have up to 4 primary partitions on one disk.  One of
those primary partitions can be an "extended" partition, which can
contain many "logical" partitions.  Primary partitions are numbered 1-4.
Logical partitions are numbered 5-15 (SCSI) or 5-63 (IDE).

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Quote:> How would you format/slice/newfs/mount a disk on Linux. ?
> currently im running Red Hat 8 on Intel.
> On Sun Solaris I ll normally attached the disk run devfsadm,
> format -partition-label
> newfs the slice, and then mount whatever directory I would like to use.

After creating the partition, use the mkfs tools, with the appropriate -t
flag to specify filesystem type.

Once done with that, use mount to mount the filesystem at whatever
mount-point you want. Again, use the -t flag to specify the filesystem.

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