Odd problem with terminal

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/06/2010 01:33 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 6 September 2010 06:14, d-_-b<theunknownandrew at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Karl, I am curious to know what was the command you executed to
>> reformat the USB with ext4?
>> If its not a bother could you tell me?
>>      
> I'm not sure about Karl but here's the command line way of doing it here:
>
> sudo fdisk -l (note down the partitions and disks if you're not
> familiar with it, say it is /dev/sdb, single partition at sdb1, and if
> it is not type 83 do the next steps regarding fdisk, otherwise skip to
> the mkfs.ext4.
> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 (unmount the file system if in use).
> sudo fdisk /dev/sdb1
> t (enter)
> 83 (enter)
> w (enter)
> mkfs.ext4 -L "Some disk" -cc -m 0 /dev/sdb1
>
> parameters:
> -L label to have on disk, max 16 bytes.
> -cc bad block check
> -m root-reserved space percentage (don't need any on this storage),
> default is 5% to let the system function during a disk full situation,
> i.e., the root can still log in, the log files can still generate
> output and write to the disk. For external storage this would just
> waste space.
>
> The reserved space etc. can be tuned later on so it's no big deal if
> the default values are used, here's a sample:
>
> root at photon:~# tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1
> tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
> Setting reserved blocks percentage to 0% (0 blocks)
>
>    
             WOW!!! This IS the hardest way!


73 Karl


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