question on formating USB Drive in Kubuntu

[Edmund Laugasson]

> 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?


You may also use NTFS under Linux as read/write:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

Please see the "Accessing the Files on Your Windows Partition From Ubuntu"


Also for further reading, please see - http://www.linux-ntfs.org/