Howard Lowndes wrote: >On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Bill Taylor wrote: > >>Hi all, >>I'm running rh 7.3, and woody. I wanted to view 'man mkfs.ext3' but I >>keep getting mke2fs instead. I started on rh, went to woody, and get >>the same result. >>The tar file /usr/share/man/man8 /mkfs.ext3 exists, but when I open it >>with emacs the contents are mke2fs,; in rh at least the mke2fs is >>actually mke2fs. >>Could someone zap me a copy of mkfs.ext3 please >> > >I think you will find that they are one and the same, and that one is a >symlink to the other. AFAIK, the difference is in the journalling. > >Have you seached in man mke2fs for "journal" > thanks Howard, you're right. I have a big drive with free space in a large extended partition. I have already made the partition (hda10) with fdisk. Obviously there are already partitions in the extended partition. I just want to make a file system on hda10, and since the rest of the partitions are ext3...... I'm going to write all my emails off-line from now on. It's amazing how writing things down clarifies them in the mind!!! I was reading the name section in the man, noting second, but then reading 'file system' as 'partition'. one does feel stupid sometimes. thanks again Bill
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