Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

["Basajaun" <isilanes@bluebottle.com>]

Robert Epprecht wrote:
> Excuse this probably very stupid question,
> but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask...

There are no stupid questions. Only stupid answers :^)

> I've got my first external usb hd and can mount it without problems as
> /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386). It's formatted
> as vfat and I want to keep a small vfat partition but for the main part
> putting ext3 or something on it.
>
> As this is my first experience with this type of hardware I want to double
> check on the list if I can do that using 'fdisk /dev/sda' and then 'mkfs.ext3'
> just as on oldstile ide disks?

I think so. IIRC, that's exactly what I did on mine. BTW, I have the
idea that cfdisk is "better" than fdisk, although I am so accustomed to
fdisk that I always use it.

     Basajaun