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Hi;

I need help with Linux. I've never used it before but haver managed a good
install.
I'm using 6.2 and the KDE interface. I have two SCSI drives hooked up to the
system. One is the Linux drive and the other is blank.
I'd like to format the blank one as a HFS volume. I cannot find the icon for
the drive anywhere (can't see it & I've clicked every file icon I can find).

How do I format this second drive as a HFS drive? I've been told you can.

Best;
Marvin

You use fdisk to format partitions. (/sbin/fdisk) It has to be run
as root, obviously. I think you can specify the device at the command
line, but for some reason my fdisk manpage isn't working.
I believe the device names for scsi drives are similar to:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
etc.

Indiviual partitions on a scsi drive are:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
etc. (except that there are 15 partition files for each device on my
system)

and scsi CD drives are:
/dev/scd0
/dev/scd1
etc.

once you're in fdisk, be very careful, as it's easy to destroy
partitions
with the wrong command.
It's based on issuing commands; you can type 'm' for help.
There should also be fdisk and partitioning howtos that will help.

--
Nick Traxler
Computer Science, Purdue University
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/traxlend

"The two most common things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity."

cfdisk is an easier approach, but i am not sure that all distros support
it... i should research that. (sorry!)

Quote:> Hi;

> I need help with Linux. I've never used it before but haver managed a good
> install.
> I'm using 6.2 and the KDE interface. I have two SCSI drives hooked up to
the
> system. One is the Linux drive and the other is blank.
> I'd like to format the blank one as a HFS volume. I cannot find the icon
for
> the drive anywhere (can't see it & I've clicked every file icon I can
find).

> How do I format this second drive as a HFS drive? I've been told you can.

> Best;
> Marvin