Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, SW wrote:

> C. Linus Hicks,
> 
> Thanks for the info. I'm trying to figure out if I formated the entire drive
> (200 gigs) using fdisk and then created a ext3 partition, it should be
> mounted as /dev/hde or /dev/hde1?
> 
> Can the drive be usable even though there are no partitions? fdisk says
> there is no partition on the drive but I can use it just fine: read, write,
> delelte, change directories, etc without any problems.

Generally speaking, it's probably safer to create a 200GB partition on the 
drive (which would be /dev/hde1), and then use "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hde1" to 
actually format the partition in question.  You would then mount /dev/hde1 
to whichever mountpoint it is you wanted.

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