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Name: Karl
Date: October 9, 2002 at 04:08:52 Pacific
OS: Liux
CPU/Ram: 500Mhz 32Mb RAM
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What is the easiest way to format a hard disk in Linux. What command should I use?

Thanks



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Name: Trip
Date: October 9, 2002 at 05:20:39 Pacific
Reply:

First you have to know what device it is, eg
/dev/hda1 for primary master partition1,
/dev/hdd2 for secondary slave partition2,
etc.

Use fdisk to create partitions if you
haven't already.

The format command varies depending on the
filesystem you want to use and partition you
want to format:
//ext2
mke2fs /dev/hda1

//ext3
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1

//xfs
mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1

//ReiserFS
mkreiserfs /dev/hda1


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