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While it is safe to use <code>dosfslabel</code> to check the label on a drive, you should not use it to create or change the label on any drive that contains data you care about.
 
While it is safe to use <code>dosfslabel</code> to check the label on a drive, you should not use it to create or change the label on any drive that contains data you care about.
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====Dual Partitions====
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A method to use both ext3 and vfat
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Plug in your drive or check it is unmounted
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fdisk /dev/sdd
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p - print existing partitions
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d - delete partitions
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n - create new partitions
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p (primary), 1, 180G (the size you want)
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n - create 2nd partition
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p (primary), 2, return (rest of the disk)
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p - print and check
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w - write
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mkfs.ext3 -L MaxExt3 /dev/sdd1
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mkfs.vfat -n MaxVfat /dev/sdd2
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====Customizing fstab====
 
====Customizing fstab====
  

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