Re: 2 linux questions

[Jakob Lell <jlell@JakobLell.de>]

On Monday 24 November 2003 12:56, Bjorn Johansson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 1. How do a patch my kernel?
Hello,
if you use kernel-package, you can just run this:
make-kpkg --added-patches foo ...
See man make-kpkg for more details.
If you want to patch your kernel source tree permamently (or there is no 
debian package for the patch), you can use this commands:
cd /path/to/kernel/source
cat /path/to/patch|patch -p1

> 2. How do I lowformat one of my partitions?
>     (without booting up the installation)
If you use ext2:
mke2fs /dev/hdXn

If you prefer ext3:
mke2fs -j /dev/hdXn

Regards
 Jakob
>
>
> Björn Johansson
> Debian user (since Slink)