Re: formatting /dev/hdc

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Debian User(debian-user@zerocrossings.com) is reported to have said:
> currently, i have two hard drives: /dev/hda as ext2 and /dev/hdc 
> as fat16. i want to format and partition /dev/hdc as ext2. having 
> never done this in a live system before, i though fdisk would work.
> it won't do the formatting as i have read. what should i use? also,
> i plan to partition /dev/hdc just like /dev/hda ... my thinking 
> is that sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk /dev/hdc will do the trick ..
>  am i correct?

Never used sfdisk, so can't say.  

I have always used mke2fs to format/change from a dos/Win drive to a
ext2 drive.  See the man page for mke2fs.

Used to use it to fix floppies that were dos formated as well.

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

Wayne

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