[ubuntu-users] Changing 232.9 NTFS hd to EXT3

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
> This is a resend as the original email has not shown up on the list.
>
> I want to know the optimal solution.
> The hard drive (HD) is 232.9 GB.
> The application using the HD is the storage of web pages.
> The HD is currently mounted as NTFS and there is no data on it that I
> want..
> Ubuntu is installed in a dual boot grub configuration.with XP HOME.
> While Ubuntu is booted I want to format this drive.
> Eventually all but one of the 6 current NTFS formatted hard drives will
> be changed to EXT3.
>
> The following is what I think is the correct use of options to be
> applied after the 232.9 GB HD has been dismounted by Ubuntu with the
> command umount "/media/sdc1"
>
> sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -c -i 1024 -b 1024 -L HDA1 -v /dev/hda1
>
> and then mount the HD.  Also, is there anything I have missed?
>
> I think the smallest size for blocks is now 1024 but at one time used to
> be 512.
>
> BELOW is the man page synopsis:
>
> SYNOPSIS
>      mke2fs  [  -c  |  -l  filename ] [ -b block-size ] [ -f
> fragment-size ] [ -g blocks-per-group ] [ -i
>      bytes-per-inode ] [ -I inode-size ] [ -j ] [ -J journal-options ]
> [ -N number-of-inodes ] [ -n  ]  [
>      -m  reserved-blocks-percentage  ]  [  -o creator-os ] [ -O
> feature[,...]  ] [ -q ] [ -r fs-revision-
>      level ] [ -E extended-options ] [ -v ] [ -F ] [ -L volume-label ]
> [ -M last-mounted-directory ] [ -S
>      ] [ -T filesystem-type ] [ -V ] device [ blocks-count ]
>
>      mke2fs  -O journal_dev [ -b block-size ] [ -L volume-label ] [ -n
> ] [ -q ] [ -v ] external-journal [
>      blocks-count ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem (usually in a
> disk partition).  device is the  spe?
>      cial  file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX).
> blocks-count is the number of blocks on the
>      device.  If omitted, mke2fs automagically figures the file system
> size.  If called  as  mkfs.ext3  a
>      journal is created as if the -j option was specified.
>
>
> Thanks for any input -- Ted
>
>
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(Since there were no replies for your twin postings up to now...)

Would you consider the use of a graphical application like Gparted?

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