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NTFS to EXT3 Debian
Name: cyberfire Date: November 21, 2004 at 18:12:51 Pacific OS: Debian / Knoppix 3.3 CPU/Ram: 166MHz/ 64 sdram
Comment:
I have a very old system runnin Debian. It had two hard disks connected to it. One of them is EXT3 and the other is NTFS (has XP Pro installed on it.) I want to reformat the NTFS so that linux can read/write to it, mainly store mp3s. How can I do that through Debian??? Any help is appriciated
Name: TazG Date: November 22, 2004 at 05:15:51 Pacific
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The "parted" program is probably already installed, you can use that... or if you want a graphical program install QtParted.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: November 22, 2004 at 06:27:35 Pacific
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cfdisk and fdisk are also alternatives allowing you to remove the partition, create another of type 83 and then format it with the mkfs command. You may find that you have have other options to run like mkfs.ext3, mkfs.reiserfs, mkfs.jfs etc.
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