Re: [newbie] reformat partition

1999-11-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you 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?

Re: [newbie] reformat partition

1999-11-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you 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? I am not trying to install linux on this

Re: [newbie] reformat partition

1999-11-07 Thread Steve Philp
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