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Re: small laptop with only floppy drive



A vague attempt at humor: subject sounds like you may need vi ag ra. ;)

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:23 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 19:20, Brandon Richards wrote:
> > i just want to format the hard drive so i can start all over is there
> > a way to do this in knoppix?  i tried format /dev/hda but it doesnt
> > work.  please help.
> 
> Try 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' this will print the partitions info of the hard drive.
> This is just to check that hda is working.
> 
> To format do:
> 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda'
> this will format the hardisk to ext3. If you want reiserfs just write 
> 'mkfs.reiserfs /dev/hda'
> 
> kfir



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