Hi Alexander,
Thanks for the reply. I finally found the info in the
howtos.Overlooked it at first.
Thanks
Dan
Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> 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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