/bckupdrv how big?

[Chris Aitken]

wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:

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>I take back my last email; delete the partition table for that disk,
>
Okay, I did that with the Command Tim gave me:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1

> create a
>new empty one, 
>
That I don't know how to do.

>AND THEN create a new partion, 
>
With fdisk again?

>then format it.
>  
>
I think that it what I never did in the first place. I know how to do 
that in Windows (format) but not in linux (other than in a GUI 
partitioner like Disk Druid).

Chris
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