Making Filesystems

I formated my secondary hard drive on my primary IDE channel and it works but I run into problems when I'm trying to create the filesystem. I got told to type in mkfs.... but when i type that into the terminal, it says "command not found". I'm running an up-to-date version of FC4 if that helps any. Thanks guys. Kaleb

[savage]

Make sure you are logged in as root, if you are using "su" to switch to root, use the "-l" parameter "su -l".

The command to make the filesystem would then be:

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/device

Asssuming you want to create an ext3 partition, you can use vfat etc. if you want a FAT32 partition to be accessible by both Windows and Linux.

Savage

awesome, that worked. However it didn't do what it I was told it was suppose to do. Fstab doesn't seem to like when I type in "/dev/hdb", instead it wants me to type in "/dev/hdb1" but I don't have have a link to that hard drive with a number after it. how would I get that? Kaleb

[tashirosgt]

A drive such as /dev/hdb can hold several partitions hdb1, hdb2,... It may be that it holds only one partition, but you still must distinguish between the drive and the partition. We format "a partition" not "a drive", so the partition is what fstab wants to hear about.
Do
/sbin/fdisk -l
to see your partitions.