partitioning and formatting external usb hd

From: Robert Epprecht (epprecht_at_solnet.ch)
Date: 10/20/05

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    Excuse this probably very stupid question,
    but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask...

    I've got my first external usb hd and can mount it without problems as
    /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386). It's formatted
    as vfat and I want to keep a small vfat partition but for the main part
    putting ext3 or something on it.

    As this is my first experience with this type of hardware I want to double
    check on the list if I can do that using 'fdisk /dev/sda' and then 'mkfs.ext3'
    just as on oldstile ide disks?

    Thanks a lot for a quick answer,
    Robert Epprecht 

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