Minor help with fdisk

Traks · 07-04-2006, 05:57 AM

Hello!

This is my first post here, so don't be too harsh

I have installed Fedora Core on PC with 2 disks and want to format second disk with ext3 file system for testing purposes.
How it is done? I have tried fdisk, but there seems too little in manuals way. Which is correct string for formatting?

Which is the standard string for seeing processes?
I want for testing purposes kill some of them and even restart.

hfawzy · 07-04-2006, 06:07 AM

To format a disk with ext3 filesystem use this command :

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mke2fs -j /dev/hdXX

The -j option is specified here to enable journalling. Replace of course /dev/hdXX with the device you want to format.

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Which is the standard string for seeing processes?

You can use the ps command (ps -ef for a full listing). man ps for more info.
Then to kill a process just run the kill command along with its pid.

btw, welcome to LQ