On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, WH Bouterse wrote:
> Yes, sometimes the most obvious answers
> are the very ones which ellude us.
>
> 'mke2fs' was the command I was looking for!
>
> Thanks to Mike Fieschko for bringing that up.
> The file system is recognized and functioning
> reasonably well for being on an old 400 meg HD.
>
> So; fdisk /dev/hdc, create new partition /dev/hdc1
> 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /extralinux'
> 'mke2fs /dev/hdc1'
> Seems to have done it!
Thats not the right order, formating a mounted disk is bad news
umount
fdisk
mke2fs
mount
> Thanks again, maybe I won't forget the next time ! :-)
>
> It would be nice to have a GUI which would do this
> for the coding/commandline impaired like myself.
> I have been using Linux for over 3 years and still
> make the most bumbling goofs! Actually I guess
> a GUI wouldn't help that either.
>
> Hows the progress with 'DiskDrake'?
> Has anyone used it with success?
Very useable. And yes everybody useing cooker pretty much.
> Thanks again to those who helped.
>
> William Bouterse
> Juneau, Alaska
>
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