On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote: > Hi Gertjan > > One thing still puzzles me that I hope you can clear up for me. > Supposing I buy a brand new hard disk. IDE, SCSI or whatever. > To use it, I have to partition it, using a utility like FDISK . > FDISK writes the MBR and Partition Table. Right ?
Fdisk does the partition table only, use lilo for the MBR. > If I go and start copying files to any of the partitions, the data can't be > read. > Because I have to format or initialize the partition before writing to it . > Right ? mke2fs is probably prefered here. > So how come the system can write/read the MBR and partition table ??? Because 99% of harddrives that I've seen are preformated for win 95. If this doesn't answer your question, it's probably because I didn't ready the beginning of this thread. Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .