On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > My replacement 3 TB Go Flex Desk USB drive arrived today from Seagate. > I don't know how it is formatted (probably FAT32 or NTFS), but I want > to reformat it EXT4. Looking at it in Palimpsest there are options to > format the drive, but none seem to actually format the drive. Sometimes > I am asked if I want to partition the drive. > > I know zero about how hard drives or partitions work. The drive will > just be used for external storage. Does it need a partition? Is that > why I can't seem to format it?
You never truly low level format modern drives. If you don't want to partition it, just run mkext4.fs on the raw /dev/sdX device. You will need to make sure that Linux didn't already automount it. That could be why you cannot put a new file system on it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
