Re: how to format hda1

["Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley pcraft com>]

lito lampitoc wrote:

> These are the steps I did:
>
> 1. unmount /dev/hda1
> 2. delete /dev/hda1
> 3. create a new partition for /dev/hda1
> 4. while writing it shows the above error
   You're not supposed to *delete* the block device /dev/hda1 - those 
are block devices.  Run '/dev/MAKEDEV hda1' (this will recreate hda1[0-9]).

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