re;formatting ext drive 2

[Eric "Shubes"]

betty wrote:
> 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

The shell (bash) is telling you that it can't find the command sdb in 
the fdisk/dev (relative to the current) folder. Of course it can't.
That command should be fdisk <space> /dev/sdb

> 
>  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.

That's a different problem. What distro are you running?

> there is an sdb in mnt

That is where the drive would be mounted.

> [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

Two things wrong with this. First is, like above, you need a space after 
fdisk. Second is, you never want to modify partitions while they're mounted!

What does the 'df' command show you?

> 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 ????

Not sure about that.


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-Eric 'shubes'
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