Checking Hard Drive

[Richard]

>Richard wrote:
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>>Okay, so how does one re-format the hdb slave drive?
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>You might look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingANewHardDrive
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>The quick manual method is as follows:
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>Open a terminal window.
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>List the existing partitions:
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>  /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb
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>Read the man page
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>  man fdisk
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>Partition the disk:
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>  sudo /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
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>Read the man page:
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>  man mkfs.ext3
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>Create the filesystem(s):
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> sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
> etc
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>Read the man page:
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>  man fstab
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>Edit fstab to add the partitions:
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>  sudo vi /etc/fstab
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>Mount the new partition(s):
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>  sudo mount /dev/hdb1
>  etc
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>Toby
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Toby Thanks, for the quick reply
did not know it was this evolved, that there was a app,
you click, and select drive, and format (done.) coming from a Mac

Enclosing all these commands can be done all at once?
now this drive, is going to be used for sharing, mp3, vid's, pdf's etc.
a drop off storage area, would vfat be a better choice?

Thanks-
Rich