On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:31:59PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > currently, i have two hard drives: /dev/hda as ext2 and /dev/hdc > as fat16. i want to format and partition /dev/hdc as ext2. having > never done this in a live system before, i though fdisk would work. > it won't do the formatting as i have read. what should i use? also, > i plan to partition /dev/hdc just like /dev/hda ... my thinking > is that sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /dev/hdc will do the trick .. > am i correct?
Fdisk will create the partitions but won't do the formatting. Let's say you partition /dev/hdc into one big partition (/dev/hdc1) that you want to be ext2. You would use mkfs to actually format the disk. In this case: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 or mkfs /dev/hdc1 since ext2 is the default. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com
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