Is ok, I got this one sussed myself.. The command for anyone interested is mkreiserfs /dev/whatever, (whatever being the partition that you want to format.)
worked great for me... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, 22 October 2001 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Formating a filesystem. Hi everyone.. I need to increase the size of /usr and that means moving it to another drive.. So I stuck in a 3.2 gig drive, which is /dev/hdc I then removed the fat32 partition using fdisk and created two new partitions, one primary and one extended. I don't care about the extended drive at present, its for future needs if applicable. Anyway, I know want to format the primary partition with reiserfs, (I am assuming that the primary is /dev/hda1) what command does linux use for formatting ? and how do I specify reiserfs? Once the drive is formated for Reiserfs, I plan to mount it as something and copy everything in /usr into it.. Then boot from the rescue disk, mount the / filesystem and edit /etc/fstab to point /usr to the new partition... That should do the trick shouldn't it? I have never needed to do this before in linux, so I am winging it.. but the logic seems to indicate that this will work.... Any tips would be much appreciated. rgds Frank
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