Brian Parish wrote: >On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: > > >>Brian Parish wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:09, John Richard Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I want to change the file system on partition /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 >>>>to >>>>/dev/hda10 /mnt/ext2-vol7 >>>> >>>>I'm perfectly confident about changing the necessary entries in fstab >>>>and creating the /mnt/ext2-vol7 directory. >>>> >>>>but I am not sure how to format /dev/hda10 to ext2 file system >>>>with a root shell command line, in mandrake. >>>> >>>>Can someone please explain the command. >>>> >>>>John >>>> >>>>-- >>>>John Richard Smith >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>mkfs /dev/hda10 >>> >>>will do that for you. It defaults to ext2, so no other switches are >>>required. You may like to >>> >>>man mkfs >>> >>>first to check whether there are other options you'd like to use. >>> >>>HTH >>>Brian >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks Brian, >>Fair enough. >>Just a further thought, since I am not repartitioning, merely changing >>the filesystem, nothing needs to be written to disk in regard to partition >>table. In otherwords, I suppose I am saying, knowledge of partition >>file systems is part of the OS , not part of the partition table ? >>John >> >>-- >>John Richard Smith >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >That's right. You are just reformatting, so the partition table remains unchanged. > >Brian > > > > > Thaks, One further thought, What's the betting I need to remake the mandrake boot floppy. In the past , in my experience, you change anything to do with the partition table/file system and the old boot floppy won't work. Any thoughts,
John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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