format

[Matthew Hill]

Mike,

Have you partitioned the drive yet?  If not, run fdisk /dev/hd?
whereas ? is the drive (a would be primary, b secondary, etc,
sda for primary scsi), or cfdisk if you can't take fdisk.

After that, run  mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda or /dev/hdb which
ever drive you wish to format.  Be careful with this
one as always with formatting.

Sincerely,

Matthew Hill
Liquid Web Inc.



Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Umm...really simple question:
>
> How do I format a device in linux? I just dropped this new hard drive in
> and I thought I had it all figured out....but ext2 still eludes me.
>
> -Mike
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