Thanks Johannes and all responses. That's great help. Cheers.
Jupiter On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Johannes Wiedersich<johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hce wrote: >> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a >> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3? > > Yes. I consider ext3 to be more reliable than the vfat or ntfs that are > typically used for preformated disks. > >> Has >> anyone done it? > > I guess there are millions of users who have formated ext3 before ;-) > >> What is the procedure and commands to do it? Anything >> I should be aware of not demage it? > > If there are no data on this disk, there is no danger of damaging it. If > there are data you are concerned about, you should have a backup of that > data. > > Just run 'mke2fs -j /dev/<name of the partition>' > > Make sure that you get <name of the partiton> right or you will reformat > a different (important?) partition. <name of the partition> typically is > something like 'sdb1' > > 'man mke2fs' has the documentation. > > Cheers, > Johannes > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkp1acoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVf5QCfdkacYbYSQxQM/QIsMby4Jqxa > +YYAnjJ4Z0g9m7PS5EP53aYOCuIckdyS > =e6JN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
