[Techtalk] run disk druid in post-installation FC4

[proto&spx x]

there are many 3rd party tools hundreds of linux specific ones
or you could always use a live on cd distro knoppix ect or
even tools such as partition magic at the end of the day its
what your comfortable using

On 11/25/05, Conor Daly <c.daly at met.ie> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:14:19AM +-0000 or thereabouts, Noir wrote:
> > I have just added a new hard-disk in my FC4 system.
> > Does anyone know how
> > can I run disk-druid to partition this disk? I can't
> > seem to find the druid
> > binary nor any related manpage. Do I need to boot it
> > off the CD?
>
> disk-druid may not be the right tool for this job since it wants to know
> all
> about filesystem type and mount point.  I don't think it will actually do
> the partitioning or formatting, instead it looks to me as if it generates
> the relevant information for anaconda to use with the ordinary tools.
> Certainly no disk changes occur while you're using disk druid at install
> time.  Instead, the changes occur only after you click the final 'install'
> button.
>
> Have you considered using fdisk or cfdisk?  The Linux Partition Howto at:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/index.html goes into more detail than
> you need but will certainly help.  It's a little out of date, doesn't
> mention ext3 partitions at all but good nonetheless.  You'll need to use
> the
> '-j' switch with mke2fs to create ext3 filesystems:
>
> mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
>
> or some such.
>
> You'll also need to edit your /etc/fstab to add the new partitions to your
> mount list.
>
> Conor
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