Re: [SLUG] Formating a new Drive

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@nospam.uts.edu.au>]

Peter McCarthy wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> 
> this should be an easy one.
> 
> I have installed a new HDD setup as /dev/hdb
> It is fdisk'ed with a Linux file system enabled.
> However I can't work out how to format the drive to make it ready for use.
> I tried fsck and it bailed on me (not suprising) as it is the File system
> checker.
> I tried mkfs -c /dev/hdb and it just keeps coming up with
> Usage: mkfs.minix [-c | -l filename] [-nXX] [-iXX] /dev/name blocks

You just need to tell it what type of filesystem to make.

/sbin/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb
/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb      (v=verbose can be useful to
show progress)
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0  

Either of the commands, mkfs, mkfs.ext2 or mke2fs, can be
used. 
Do check the man pages for specific parameters.

Mike

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