Re: external disk formatting

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To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:05:22 +0000

Thanks, Mike. That was exactly what I was looking for! Got it up and running like a dream.

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pepe [mailto:lamune@doki-doki.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 01:57 PM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: Re: external disk formatting
>
>
>
> Mike Markiw III wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to get a Red Hat ES 4 install up and running using an external hard drive for additional storage. The drive came out of the box formatted with fat32. However, fat32 doesn't support UNIX-style partitions so I hooked it up to a windows machine and formatted to ntfs. I installed the ntfs kernel module only to find out that it doesn't support write/delete operations, only read.
> >
> > I'd like to just do a format to ext2 from the RHEL box, but I've never done anything like that before. Usually, the only formatting I do is at OS-install time.
> >
> > I found fdisk, though that didn't seem to be the correct program. Then I found parted but I keep getting error messages saying that it doesn't allow partitions outside the disk.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any advice or assitance? Surely there must be a simpler way to format a disk!
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -Mike Markiw
> > Oracle Technology Consultant
> > Tier1, Inc.
> >
>
> Mike,
>
> I'm going to assume this is a USB disk.
>
> USB disks appear to Red Hat as a SCSI disk. look at the /proc/scsi/scsi
> file and it should list all the SCSI devices on the system. First scsi
> disk is /dev/sda, second /dev/sdb, etc.
>
> Once you figure out which disk it is, run fdisk with that argument, such
> as fdisk /dev/sda
>
> delete the windows partition
>
> create linux partition or partitions
>
> write the new partition table, fdisk will quit
>
> then you can make the filesystems, example, mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/sda1
>
> after that's done, you can mount it like any other filesystem on a SCSI
> disk.
>
> Might be a good idea to use the -L (label) option either during mke2fs
> or tune2fs afterwards, since USB devices tend to move around if you add
> others. (sda may become sdb, etc)
>
> Also if you add the entry to /etc/fstab to automatically mount at boot,
> make sure it doesn't automount at boot time. Reason being- if the disk
> is not present when the system boots and the filesystem is marked in
> /etc/fstab as mount at boot, it will come up in single user mode and ask
> you to fix the filesystem. If you don't auto-mount at boot it will
> actually mount it later in the boot process, but if absent it won't
> prevent the rest of the system from coming up.
>
> I'm sure others will have better suggestions.
>
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