cbagger01
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Posted: May 30 2005,15:09 |
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OK.
Open an xterminal and type:
sudo su cfdisk /dev/hda
where /dev/hda is the device name for your hard drive IDE Primary Master drive = hda IDE Primary Slave drive = hdb IDE Secondary Master drive = hdc IDE Secondary Slave drive = hdd First SCSI or USB drive = sda Seoncd SCSI or USB drive = sdb etc...
For most people, their hard drive is located at /dev/hda
Use the keyboard commands in cfdisk to create a new "Linux" partition type and write your new partition table and then exit. On paper, write down the location of your new partition. In other words, 1st partition is hda1, 3rd partition is hda3. In this example, the partition will be located at hda3.
Some people like to reboot at this point, so lets do it just to be safe.
After rebooting, open an xterminal window and type:
sudo su mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda3 mkdir /mnt/hda3 mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
and your new partition is now accessable if you go into the /mnt/hda3 directory.
Unfortunately, if you are not user "root", you will be unable to save any files.
One way to fix this is to reboot and let the DSL/KNOPPIX autodetection discover your new partition and add it to /etc/fstab for you.
After rebooting, open the emelfm file manager and go to the /mnt directory.
Then Right-Click on the "hda3" subdirectory and choose Mount from the menu.
Mission Accomplished.
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