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Steve yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 27 14:54:11 UTC 2009


On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:19:04 -0000, Gilan-Schah  
<ferygs19-11-38 at t-online.de> wrote:

> I have installed Kubuntu a week ago. I am new-comer to Kubuntu or any
> other Linux variations.
> I want to fomate a USB-Stick in ext2.
> I have found the following command:
> sudu mk2fs/dev/sda2
> Question No. 1: Is this command allright?
> Question No. 2: How can I found the sda of the USB-Stick.
>
> I am writing from Germany.  Please excuse my bad English.
>
In a terminal type 'df' without the quotes to see which is the USB drive
If it is sdb1 the commands are:-

	umanout /dev/sdb1
	sudo mke2fs /dev/sdb1


The first unmounts the device as you can’t format a mounted device and the  
second will format it as ext2


-- 
Steve




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