On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
> Does anyone know if fdisk is enough preparation for a new disk (presumably
> formatted as FAT or some other MS format) or do I need to re-format this
> disk? I want to use it as an ext2 disk, but I'm adding it to an already
> running system.  The usual Linux installations offer to format disks, but I
> don't seem to have a format command.  I can mount it now that fdisk has
> written a partition table, but I wonder if that is enough.  It didn't seem to
> take enough time to re-write every block, check for errors etc.  Any hints ?

Here's one:  man mkfs

HTH

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Bill Mullen
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Nov 25, 2001


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