paul@cougar ~ > su Password: paul@cougar /home/paul # dmesg | grep '^hd[a-z]:' hda: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive hdc: IC25N010ATDA04-0, ATA DISK drive hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63 hdc: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/347KiB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63, (U)DMA paul@cougar /home/paul # fdisk /dev/hdc Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19485. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-19485, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-19485, default 19485): Using default value 19485 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19485 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 19485 9820408+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): l 0 Empty 1b Hidden Win95 FA 64 Novell Netware bb Boot Wizard hid 1 FAT12 1c Hidden Win95 FA 65 Novell Netware c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 2 XENIX root 1e Hidden Win95 FA 70 DiskSecure Mult c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 3 XENIX usr 24 NEC DOS 75 PC/IX c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 4 FAT16 <32M 39 Plan 9 80 Old Minix c7 Syrinx 5 Extended 3c PartitionMagic 81 Minix / old Lin da Non-FS data 6 FAT16 40 Venix 80286 82 Linux swap db CP/M / CTOS / . 7 HPFS/NTFS 41 PPC PReP Boot 83 Linux de Dell Utility 8 AIX 42 SFS 84 OS/2 hidden C: df BootIt 9 AIX bootable 4d QNX4.x 85 Linux extended e1 DOS access a OS/2 Boot Manag 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 86 NTFS volume set e3 DOS R/O b Win95 FAT32 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 87 NTFS volume set e4 SpeedStor c Win95 FAT32 (LB 50 OnTrack DM 8e Linux LVM eb BeOS fs e Win95 FAT16 (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 93 Amoeba ee EFI GPT f Win95 Ext'd (LB 52 CP/M 94 Amoeba BBT ef EFI (FAT-12/16/ 10 OPUS 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f BSD/OS f1 SpeedStor 11 Hidden FAT12 54 OnTrackDM6 a0 IBM Thinkpad hi f4 SpeedStor 12 Compaq diagnost 55 EZ-Drive a5 BSD/386 f2 DOS secondary 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 56 Golden Bow a6 OpenBSD fd Linux raid auto 16 Hidden FAT16 5c Priam Edisk a7 NeXTSTEP fe LANstep 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 61 SpeedStor b7 BSDI fs ff BBT 18 AST SmartSleep 63 GNU HURD or Sys b8 BSDI swap Hex code (type L to list codes): c Changed system type of partition 1 to c (Win95 FAT32 (LBA)) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19485 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 19485 9820408+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional information. Syncing disks. paul@cougar /home/paul # mkdosfs -F 32 -s 32 /dev/hdc1 mkdosfs 2.7 (14 Feb 2001) paul@cougar /home/paul # mkdir -p /mnt/mp3disk paul@cougar /home/paul # mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/mp3disk paul@cougar /home/paul # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 69900668 16413364 49936540 25% / /dev/hda4 7621576 3074520 4159892 43% /backup /dev/hda1 46636 6582 37646 15% /boot none 300468 0 300468 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 1226556 651628 574928 54% /dos /dev/hdc1 9815584 16 9815568 1% /mnt/mp3disk