On 16.I.2004 at 22:22 Bastian Blank wrote: > > There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to > use the right name or specify -j. We prefer the functions in libparted to mkfs.* because using libparted it is possible to show the user progress bar. However libparted doesn't support ext3 hence the solution is to format the file system as ext2 and convert latter to ext3 using tune2fs. Anton Zinoviev