clarification on a NHF ????

[cotfessi]

I'm looking at the following NHF:
http://linuxnewbie.internet.com/nhf/intel/hardware/hd_add.html

After it says to type dmseg | more it says that my new drive should look like "/dev/hdb"

but on the very next step the author uses "fdisk /dev/hdb2"

Where did the 2 come from?

[Mountainman]

The 2 designates it as the second partition on the hd whatever drive.

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[cotfessi]

the NHF regards adding a new blank Hard Disk Drive... there shouldn't be any partitions available. shouldn't the NHF read "fdisk /dev/hdb" ??

Sorry to seem anal, but I'm still pretty green when it comes to stuff like this and I really don't want to mess anything up... I finally have a stable working system http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Sensei]

yes there have been other complaints about that particular section.

/dev/hdb would suffice rather than /dev/hdb2.

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[cotfessi]

thanks Sensei