9.2. Partitioning a hard disk and formatting a partition

Regarding the principles referred to above and as far as we are concerned in this section, there are two things to note: a hard disk is divided into partitions and each of these partitions hosts a filesystem. Now, at present, your brand new hard disk has neither, so that is where you have to start, beginning with the partitioning. For that you must be root.

First, you have to know the "name" of your hard disk, i.e. what file designates it. Suppose you set it up as a slave on your primary IDE interface, it will then be /dev/hdb[1].

Notes

[1]

The way to find the name of a disk is explained in the Installation guide.


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