Checking Hard Drive

[Richard]

>On 05/19/2006 12:22 AM, * Richard spake thusly:
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>>fdisk /dev/hdaN, where N is the partition #
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>>Richard wrote:
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>>>>>What command would I use to check the hard and its partition,
>>>>>making sure all is well?
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>>>>>Thanks -
>>>>>Rich
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>>Great, how about this:
>>I have a second drive (hdb) want to re-format this drive, and mount it
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>>second: this drive is going to be used for mp3 and video play back.
>>(maybe holding some .pdf's )
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>>!what format type Linux partition or vfat32 ? should I used and why?
>>and last, how does one right the command to do all the above?
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>fat32 is the old (Win 9x) Windows file system.  It's rather universal
>these days in that most operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows XP etc)
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>It's also the default format on flash media (USB flash drives, compact
>flash, secure digital etc).
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>However, if you're only going to be running Linux then stick with a
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>Linux file systemformat (ext3, Reiser etc).
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>The default for Ubuntu is ext3.
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Okay, so how does one re-format the hdb slave drive?