On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:30:11PM -0400, Daniel Anderson wrote:
>    Hi,
>   I added a drive to my computer and used fdisk to create a ext2
> partition and a swap partition. How do I format these partitions so they
> can be used?

To format a partition you'll need to create a filesystem on it.  If you want
to make a ext2 fs, you'll need "mke2fs".  See man mke2fs.  After you
created the fs, you'll need to mount it in a directory.  To mount that fs
everytime you boot, edit /etc/fstab.

Alexander Skwar
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