Format new hard drive

[buckyweet]

I'm a newbie trying to dabble with Fedora. Feel free to laugh at me, but please don't flame me ;) .

I just installed a new hard drive, but had a power outage during the initial booting afterwards. It recognized the new hardware and was asking me something, but power went out. When I booted up again, it bypassed that prompt and booted as normal. My problem is, how do I format this new drive? I've looked, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for in the forums.

I can go to Hardware Brower and see the new drive there, but nothing happens when I click on it (/dev/hdb). Help. How do I format and mount this new drive?

[fsck]

This kind of depends on how comfortable you are manually partitioning, then formatting the disk from the command line. If in doubt, give qtparted a try, it's avaiable from 'yum install qtparted' provided you have the yum.conf mentioned in the FAQ.
If you want to do it from the command line instead, post a note here and I'll try and run through it.

C.

[fsck]

Well whaddayaknow, fedoranews had a howto all along :) Is there anything that site can't tell me?

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

[buckyweet]

Followed the directions of the link and finally got it to work. Thanks for all your help.