Trying to format my HDDs...

[Kent Frazier]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 07:50:09 +1000, Daniel Saunders
<daniel.saunders at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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You may have to use fdisk to make partitions on the device first, if
there are none.  To do so, try 'sudo fdisk /dev/sda'.  It may be sdb
or sdc, etc. depending on your other devices.

Kent