Re: Anybody know how to add a hard drive to your system?

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:53:07AM -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> I was glad to see the correction in the second paragraph.
> 
> As Mikkel noted in the second paragraph, you do need to create one
> partition.
> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:43:10 -0600 (CST), Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
> >Alex, if you are going to make /dev/sdb one big file system, you do not
> >have to create any partitions on it.  But mount and mke2fs will both
> >issue a warning if you do it this way.
> >
> >The normal way would be:
> >fdisk /dev/sdb or cfdisk /dev/sdb to create one large primary partition.
> 

iOne more correction to the original post. You do not need
to make any extended partitions unless you want more than 4
partitions on the disk.
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