Need some Linux help

[engineereeyore]

I'm currently running Fedora Core 6. I have a 250GB NTFS hard drive that I want to wipe and use on my Fedora installation. I'm trying to mount it to /mnt/Share.

Does anyone know the commands to do this? I'm ssh'ing into the machine, though I am using X window. So if anyway has some ideas how I can get this drive up and running, please let me know. It is recognized as hdb, just need to get it into a condition that I can write to it.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Nothinman]

If all you want to do is format the drive then run 'mke2fs -m 0 -j /dev/whatever' and add an entry to /etc/fstab so it'll be mounted on bootup. But be sure you use the right device name in that mke2fs command otherwise you might end up formatting the wrong drive.

 

[M00T]

You'll need to determine what the device is mapped to:

dmesg | grep hd

You should see it in the list somewhere. If not, the kernel or the bios did not recognize the drive.

fdisk the drive to create partitions:

fdisk /dev/hdX

Create a new partition and change the type to "Linux"

As nothinman said, you'll need to initialize a files system on the drive:

mke2fs /dev/hdX1

Next step is to mount the drive to a folder...

mount /dev/hdX1 /mnt/Share

Further instruction for the same process in Gentoo

 

[engineereeyore]

Thanks guys. That worked. I thought I needed fdisk and mke, but forgot that I had to be logged in as root for those to work. Otherwise, it says they don't exist.

Anyway, thanks again. Works now!

 

[Nothinman]

Thanks guys. That worked. I thought I needed fdisk and mke, but forgot that I had to be logged in as root for those to work. Otherwise, it says they don't exist.

Because they're in /sbin which isn't in regular user's PATH by default. You can still use at least mkfs if you have correct rights on the device/file but I'm not sure about fdisk.

 

[silverpig]

fdisk works for my standard user. It's in sbin, but I can still run it without su/sudo

 

[Nothinman]

fdisk works for my standard user. It's in sbin, but I can still run it without su/sudo

The ioctl at the end to reread the partition table even works?