Trying to format my HDDs...

[Daniel Saunders]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:03:08 -0500, mirtux <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> i would like to know how is possible to format an USB connected
> external hard drive  with ext3 partition to be used under linux.

You'd need to work out what the device was called - probably by
looking at /var/log/messages then
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

Actually, I just looked at the man page, and it seems that when
mounted you could also do
mkfs.ext3 /mount/usbharddrive
and that would work to.  Aren't man pages great!

Daniel