M L Cates wrote:
>
> I have created a 2nd partition on my BACKUP (2nd) hard disk
> in my windows/linux system. This HD was previously all DOS.
>
> Q. How do I reformat my newly created disk partition, which is still DOS
> formatted, for linux?
mke2fs /dev/<partition>
For example, to format hdb2, the command would be:
mke2fs /dev/hdb2
You may want to consider using 4096 byte blocks, as it will give
slightly better response:
mke2fs -b4096 /dev/hdb2
Now, when are distribution vendors going to give us the option of block
sizes during install?! I'd like to use 4096, but the only way to do
that is to play with the install routines...
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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