Re: RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Huston
I use fdisk and do the same thing. - Original Message - From: "Adelle Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] RE: Changing the format of a partition Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs"

RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Adelle Hartley
> On my system the command is /sbin/mke2fs. There is a good set > of man pages starting with man mkfs. > > By the way, you need to point at the partition, e.g., > /dev/hdd3, not the overall hard drive as you did above (/dev/hdd). > > I assume you are abandoning the FAT32 partition's contents?

RE: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Adelle Hartley
> Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type > > mkfs /dev/hdd > > I get the message "mkfs: command not found". Doh! I forgot to make myself root. Adelle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing the format of a partition

2005-01-01 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:35:22AM +1100, Adelle Hartley wrote: > Hi all, > Hi, Adelle, > I've been running Debian 3.0 for a while now, and I want to change the > format of one of my partitions from FAT32 to a native Linux format. > > Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I t