how to format a drive

[OOzy Pal]

On 3/9/07, Guillermo Garron <guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/9/07, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/9/07, Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> wrote:
> > > OOzy Pal wrote:
> > >
> > > > which is my kubuntu? Is there a significant difference?
> > >
> > > I don't get the question. What are you trying to do?
> > >
> > > with mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 you will format the first partition of the
> > > second (SCSI/SATA) drive with the filesystem ext3. Everything on this
> > > partition will be gone afterwards.
> > >
> > > I don't know what is on which partition you have and what you want to do.
> > >
> > > Carsten
> > >
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> > I mean what is the diff btw ext3, ex2, xfs, and reiserfs? Is Kunbuntu
> > ext3 or ex2, etc?
> ext3 is a linux partition
> ext2 also, but as per as your question, what are your trying to do?
> format a disk to be able to use it with your Kubuntu (read any linux)
> only? or also with microsoft or mac PCs (in case you are formating a
> pendrive)
>
> If only for Linux you can use
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/xxxy  where xxxy is hda1, hda2, hdb2, hdc1, sda1, sdb2,
> what ever, hd is for IDE disks where the a, b, or c.. are the
> positions the IDE disk are using and the numbers are the partitions on
> that disk, with sd are SATA disk, with the same considerations for the
> letters following and the numbers.
>
> If you are trying to format a pendrive or a USB external disk to use
> also with linux and XP or any other windows, and/or mac, use FAT32
> with this command.
>
> mkfs.vfat
>
> Hope this can help you decide what you need.
>
> regards,
>
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Got it done. Thank you.

I posted another question on a different email for syncing my folders.

Thank you.

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OOzy
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