On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:35:22AM +1100, Adelle Hartley wrote: > Hi all, >
Hi, Adelle, > I've been running Debian 3.0 for a while now, and I want to change the > format of one of my partitions from FAT32 to a native Linux format. > > Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type > > mkfs /dev/hdd > > I get the message "mkfs: command not found". > > Is this the right command? And do I need to unmount the drive first? > On my system the command is /sbin/mke2fs. There is a good set of man pages starting with man mkfs. By the way, you need to point at the partition, e.g., /dev/hdd3, not the overall hard drive as you did above (/dev/hdd). I assume you are abandoning the FAT32 partition's contents? Changing formats is pretty irreversible. Regards, Ollie > Thanks. > > Adelle. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- |---------------------------| | Ollie Acheson | | Morristown, NJ | |---------------------------| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
