Thanks Norbert. That worked nicely.

Cheers,
Mark

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 12:33, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > Maybe the best way to really clean this up would be to blow the
> > partition away and recreate it in fdisk or some other tool?
> > 
> 
> fdisk is for sure not necessary here ...
> 
> Unmount the filesystem
> 
>       umount /dev/hda9
> 
> Make a new filesystem
> 
>       mkfs /dev/hda9
> 
> if u don't have /dev/hda9 line in /etc/fstab,
> u can use this:
> 
>       mkfs -t ext2  [-j]  /dev/hda9
> 
> -j switch makes journal (ext3), can be done
> also later by command:
> 
>       tune2fs -j /dev/hda9
> 
> 
> Mount it ... and it's clean :-)
> 
> noro
> 
> 
> 
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