Re: Changing the format of a partition

[Ollie Acheson <oacheson@acheson.org>]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:35:22AM +1100, Adelle Hartley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 

Hi, Adelle,

> I've been running Debian 3.0 for a while now, and I want to change the
> format of one of my partitions from FAT32 to a native Linux format.
> 
> Google has pointed me in the direction of "mkfs", but if I type
> 
> mkfs /dev/hdd
> 
> I get the message "mkfs: command not found".
> 
> Is this the right command?  And do I need to unmount the drive first?
> 

On my system the command is /sbin/mke2fs. There is a good set of man pages
starting with man mkfs.

By the way, you need to point at the partition, e.g., /dev/hdd3, not the
overall hard drive as you did above (/dev/hdd).

I assume you are abandoning the FAT32 partition's contents? Changing formats
is pretty irreversible.

Regards,

Ollie



> Thanks.
> 
> Adelle.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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