Using FDISK to Format USB drive NTFS

[hogfan]

This is giving me all kinds of issues. I have Ubuntu server (Maverick) running and I am trying to configure some rsync Cron jobs to backup some media files and system files. However, I formatted an external 750 GB HDD as 1 NTFS partition from the terminal using FDISK. However when I try to mount the partition it says it's not valid NTFS. Do I need to set any flags on the drive in FDISK first? And if so which hex code do I choose for NTFS? thanks

-hogfan

[bodhi.zazen]

fdisk does not format, use mkfs

In your case,

mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdxy

where /dev/sdxy is the partition to format.