Background: Filesystems, such as hard drives are mounted in the path, usually in /mnt. Devices are located in /dev. Devices beginning with hd are IDE hard drives. The letter following hd indicates the drive (a = drive 0, b = drive 1, etc.), and the number indicates the partition. Thus /dev/hdb3 is the third partition on the second drive (drive 1). SCSI drives begin with sd rather than hd, but SCSI is not supported by this kernel. You must install an appropriate module to access a SCSI drive. ***Partitioning and formating*** fdisk,cfdisk partition programs. Can be used to display part. info. mkdosfs /dev/hda1 format /dev/hda1. run "man mkdosfs" for options ***Mounting file systems*** man mount more details on mounting mount list mounted filesystems mount /mnt/hd mount first partition of primary IDE drive (the default) mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd mount drive /dev/hda2 at /mnt/hd umount /mnt/hd unmount filesystem mounted at /mnt/hd ***Filesystem Checking*** dosfsck /dev/hda1 check dos filesystem on /dev/hda1 badblocks -s /dev/hda1 check for bad blocks on /dev/hda1, doesn't repair