Re: Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:14:47PM +0800, John wrote: ... On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more user-friendly tools such as fdisk? I know the feelings :) But situation is

Re: Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Frans Pop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:14, John wrote: I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions. I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3. The format failed as the partitions have existing journal

Re: Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:14:47PM +0800, John wrote: ... > On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the > disks to appear in the traditional place and to munge them with more > user-friendly tools such as fdisk? I know the feelings :) But situation is not as bad as you

Re: Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 09:14, John wrote: > I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions. > I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3. > The format failed as the partitions have existing journals. That shou

Problem formatting existing partitions

2004-07-15 Thread John
I'm trying to install to a disk with existing (ext3) parititions. I chose to use the existing partitions, to reformat them as ext3. The format failed as the partitions have existing journals. On a side note, can we have symlinks in /dev for those who like the disks to appear in the traditional pla