question on formating USB Drive in Kubuntu

[Tez]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> Ok I am slowly moving completely over to Linux on my laptop for work and need to 
> run a bunch of Virtual Machines so I have an 120 gig USB 2.0 drive that is 
> currently formatted in NTFS.
>
> How do delete everything that is on it and format it to ext3 or a better 
> filesystem for running such a large USB drive on?
>
>   
If the device is called sda1 (you can check /var/log/messages), then you 
would run:
sudo mke2fs -j /dev/sda1
that will format the 1st partition on the drive as ext3

Tez