working from another thread i've seen in here, hasn't anyone developed an simpler way of doing little things like this? i mean i can do it off the command line but i don't see why i have to remember that i need a "type 83" partition...
> From: "Robert G. 'Doc' Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:05:03 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: drive wiping > > Simple, but to be strictly correct, one formats partitions rather than > whole drives. I'll assume you are talking about a second IDE hard drive, > and that you want to make it all one ext2 partition. > > As root, use fdisk to delete all previous partitions, then create a single > primary partition of type 83. Run 'mke2fs -L label_name /dev/hdb1' > (specifying a label is optional, but useful), then add the appropriate > entry to /etc/fstab. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > At 12:55 10/12/2001 -0700, you wrote: >> so how does one format a hard drive in ext2 in linux? >> >> i have an old windows drive that i want to use on my server, but i don't >> want to be stuck with a fat32 drive... >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Seawolf-list mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
