Formatting a mnt

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LazyDave : 28/01/03 04:23 PM : Incident created -   How can a format a HDD, the HDD is /mnt/nt2 that I want to format
kabage : 28/01/03 05:41 PM : Reply received -   First make sure you know what disk and partition and that it is not mounted so if /mnt/nt2 is mounted do umount /mnt/nt2 <enter> of course you can be there when unmounting be on another partion or disk. Now lets pretend you this is another disk like hdb and it is the second partion so its /dev/hdb2 yes, you know this probably. anyway depending on the type of file system it is usually something like mke2fs -j /dev/hdb2 <enter> Ext3 system or mke2fs /dev/hdb2 <enter> Ext2 system or mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 <enter> mkswap , for swap so on and so on yes you can format vfat and dos stuff
Linegod_7611 : 28/01/03 05:41 PM : Reply received -   You don't format a 'mnt' you format the device (/dev/whatever) that it is linked to. By typing 'df' you will get a list of devices and where they are mounted. Use 'diskdrake' to then format that device. ------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please rememeber to close this incident.
LazyDave : 28/01/03 08:14 PM : Incident closed -

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