Slave Drive (resend)

[Wayne Smith]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Wayne Smith wrote:
>   
>> If I format the master 
>> drive, will that wipe out my files on slave also??? If so, how do I
>> separate it from the filesystem????
>>     
>
> Not sure what you mean with "format the master drive". Usually you don't 
> format a drive but a partition. You should never format a partition which 
> is mounted. In a terminal use the umount command for the partition you 
> want to format. And watch for error messages - only format it if there 
> are no umount errors. Then no files on any other partition are lost.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
What I mean is, if I were to reinstall Ubuntu on that drive.