Sorry not just mke2fs
1) first do a low level formating of those partitions
using fdformat [-n] /dev/xxxxx
2) Then assign the filesystem accoringly
mk[dos][e2]fs [-c ] or someting like this.
Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:34:46AM +0530, D. K. Gayen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have very little experience in Linux so another newbie question.
> >
> > How to format a hard disk under Linux? I have partitioned a new HDD and now
> > want to format the partitions (Linux Native) but do not know how to do it.
> > Please help.
>
> man mke2fs
>
> -Arun
>
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