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Re: How to partition and format external disk to ext3



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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 04:05, hce wrote:
>> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
>> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
[...]
> Turn it on, plug it in and treat it like you'd treat any other hard
> drive.  Because that's exactly what it is...

IIRC, that would keep the present file system of the disk, eg. vfat.
That's not what OP asked for IIUC.

Cheers,
Johannes

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