Formatting an unused partition

From: [KS] (boneywasawarriorvayayix_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/19/04

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    Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
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    Bonjour tous,

    I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda)
    has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one
    (/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking
    free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all the
    partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum
    was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even remember
    that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and
    it showed that there was an ~18GB partition
    (/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it showed
    the partion as FS=Linux but no type.

    What are the various options that I use to format that
    partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just
    want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it
    is being done as root.

    Thanks,
    /KS

    PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below:

    Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
                            Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0
    GB
                  Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63
    Cylinders: 9729

        Name Flags Part Type FS Type
    [Label] Size (MB)

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext3
                      197.41
        hdb2 Primary Linux ext3
                     6999.72
        hdb3 Primary Linux ext3
                     1998.75
        hdb5 Logical Linux ext3
                     1998.75
        hdb6 Logical Linux swap
                     1003.49
        hdb7 Logical Linux ext3
                      501.75
        hdb8 Logical Linux ext3
                    20003.89
        hdb9 Logical Linux ext3
                    27003.60
        hdb10 Logical Linux
                    20316.45

                    
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