[Sheflug] hard disk problem

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi chums,

I've got a daft problem - when I installed Mandrake 7 on a machine I made up
from bits and pieces I put 2 hard drives in the box but only made one of
them linux formatted, the other one staying as a dos disk but empty (I had
thoughts that I might want to put some windows progs on it sometime).
However, I now seem to be running short of space on the main disk and so I
would like to make the dos disk into a linux one and mount it on the system
somehow. So, how do I do it? I tried fdisk and can change the partition type
to 'linux' but I don't know then a) how to 'format' it to make it '/usr1' or
something, b) how to stop it mounting as /mnt/DOS_hdb1 and mount it as a
part of the main system. I have tried to find info in the 'man' pages etc
but I've drawn a blank. Can anyone help please or at least point me in the
right direction? Thanks.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK



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