You have it mostly right. The only correction I'd make is that the extended partition is not listed as a /dev/hda<x>. Rather, /dev/hda5 is just your first logical drive. There wouldn't really be any reason to list the extended partition as a number anyway since you can't do anything with it except use it to get around the 4 partition limit. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote: > *SNIP* > Use mkfs2ext, I think it is, again as root, to build the > file systems. I may have that second command wrong. > > you're right about it being wrong, > the command is mke2fs /dev/xxx where xxx is the partition number you > want to format. > if I remember some of my basics correctly, and anyone feel free to jump > down my throat and tell me to go learn it again if I have it wrong, > your ide devices are listed as follows. > /dev/hda the primary master, > /dev/hda1 through 4 are the first 4 primary partitions on the disk > /dev/hda5 is an extended partition and anything above that is a logical > partition. > /dev/hdb if memory serves is the second ide device on the first ide > channel. > and /dev/hdc is the secondary master on the second ide channel and > /dev/hdd is the secondary slave on that second ide channel. > I hope I got it right please god let it be so. > >
