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How to format your harddrive
Name: Oscar Date: October 27, 2002 at 03:05:00 Pacific OS: Red Hat 7.3 CPU/Ram: Pentium 2, 32
Comment:
Hi wonder how to format my harddrive in red hat linux 7.3. if there's a program or a command or something please contact me on orre_007@hotmail.com //Oscar
Name: Jonathan Date: October 27, 2002 at 07:58:12 Pacific
Reply:
Open an xterm, and at the prompt, type "man mkfs".
Note that mkfs will not partition a harddrive. If you want to know more about partitioning a harddrive before you format it, at the prompt, type "man fdisk" or "man cfdisk" (I recommend cfdisk if you have it).
Jonathan
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Response Number 2
Name: Oscar Date: October 27, 2002 at 08:05:12 Pacific
Summary: hello marten. check, whether your system supports a FAT-filesystem. type "cat /proc/filesystems". is there an entry "vfat"? Then go on. You have to get the dosfs-tools package which contains t...
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