[CentOS] Hard disk, format, filesystem SOLVED

Fri Aug 15 17:01:11 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> I think I solved it by this simple command:
>     mke2fs -S /dev/sdb1
> ...which only rewrites the superblock.

I would have just used fdisk instead of partd.  If you are adding this 
to a raid, you don't need a filesystem, just a partition of the right 
size.  The contents are going to be wiped by the raid sync anyway.

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   Les Mikesell
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