re;formatting ext drive 2

[betty]

answer to questions;
yes, that drive already has 3 partitions on it, but i assume i am going 
to be deleting them, that is fine, they are an old redhat that i'm not 
using now. now i am using redhat 9.0. yes, it is attached by a usb.

although the gui says that the the drive is /dev/sdb , when i try to use 
fdisk/dev/sdb i get this;

[root at bigdog /]# fdisk/dev/sdb
bash: fdisk/dev/sdb: No such file or directory

  when i looked in /dev, sure enough there was no /sdb
there are a lot of /sdbr, /sdbs, /sdbt, etc but no just plain sdb's.

there is an sdb in mnt

[root at bigdog mnt]# ls
cdrom  flash  floppy  sdb

so i thought i'd try the command from mnt but i got:

[root at bigdog mnt]# fdisk/sdb
bash: fdisk/sdb: No such file or directory

sooo, how can that be? i thought i was on a roll.... :\

how can it be in the gui as /dev/sdb but not in the command line when i 
LS under dev ????

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betty i.
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