/bckupdrv how big?

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I forget if you have data that you need to access on this drive or not.
>>
>>
>> No, I'm setting it up as a backup drive but I can delete what's in 
>> there now.
>>
>>> If it's
>>> not important and you don't care about what is currently on that 
>>> drive, then why
>>> not format and start over?
>>
>>
>> That's what I'm trying to do. I don't know how to call up disk 
>> druidtoher than during an installation. I used to know my way around 
>> fdisk pretty well but now when I choose delete a partition it asks me 
>> which partition then I type in a number and it rejects it. I don't 
>> see any other disk partitioner in FC4.
>
>
> I notice fstab that LABEL=/ is for /bvkupdrv. That didn't seem right 
> so I changed it to /dev/hdb1 for /bckupdrv. I don't knwo if that will 
> help -- it hasn't seemed to. I stuill only have around 1 GB accessible 
> on the 6 GB partition. I even deleted the partition in fdisk 
> (including w to write the change to the table), rebooted and it's 
> still there. Bot, I'm gonna learn a lot from this one.

I read in the fdisk man page that cfdisk is the best 'fdisk'. I don't 
seem to have it.

Chris

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