aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom victor antonio chávez de anda wrote dont know command format hard disk know thankx god isnt windows try format doesnt work please anyone help first partition disk fdisk devsdx x letter hard disk plugged use mkfs whatever flavor want partitions create personally prefer xfs example mkfsxfs l put_label_here devsdx1 2 3 whatever etcfstab use labelput_label_here place device name firset field external disk youre going pulling hair every time plug disk trying figure letter x devsdx drive time plug tue 05 aug 2008 031728 0500 opensuse formated external usb hard disk konsole