Open Suse 10.2 - Partition external drive!!

[navik_pathak]

Hello Guys,

I have installed Opensuse 10.2.
Now i have external drive and i want to format that drive using suse format.
how can i do that?

Thanks in advance
Prashant Pathak

[gogalthorp]

There are sever ways, but the esiest is

Yast-System-Partitioner

Be careful with great power comes great responsability

[devils casper]

yeah ! be very careful. format correct disk. execute 'fdisk -l' and note down external disk's name before formatting.





Casper

[navik_pathak]

Hi,

can you please give the steps to do it?

because i can see drive in the partitioner screen. and i tried to create a partition . heres what i did

Selected the drive /dev/sdb
Press create button prompted 1 /dev/sdb 2 /dev/sdb1

select /dev/sdb1

selected partition type extended as i already primary partition. and than it asked me for the size i specified max and said apply...it created extened for the whole amount....but than nothing...

i cant cd to the directory i cant mount it doesnt show me even in my computer....

let me know what i did wrong?

thanks in advance

[devils casper]

you can not mount extended partition. create Logica; Partitions in Extended partition.