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You'll most likely find an existing vfat dos partition, which you have to delete first. Refer to http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk#Partitioning_the_disk for steps to create a partition. In the following we assume, that you have created a single partition ''/dev/sdc1''.

You'll most likely find an existing vfat dos partition, which you have to delete first. Refer to http://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk#Partitioning_the_disk for steps to create a partition. In the following we assume, that you have created a single partition ''/dev/sdc1''.

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

</li><li>Now format the drive with an ext3 filesystem

  mkfs.ext3 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

  mkfs ext3 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

</li><li>or format the drive with an ext4 filesystem

</li><li>or format the drive with an ext4 filesystem

  mkfs.ext4 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

  mkfs ext4 -L MyLabel /dev/sdc1

</li><li>Make the mount point

</li><li>Make the mount point

  mkdir -p /media/usbdevice

  mkdir -p /media/usbdevice