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Old 02-03-2007, 01:02 PM   #1
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Mkfs gone


I'm running Novell SUSE Enterprise Server 10.0. I want to format a SATA drive, but when I type mkfs.exe3 /dev/sda1 it says command not found. If I change to cd /sbin I still get the same message. What do I need to do?
 
Old 02-03-2007, 02:35 PM   #2
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Looks like a typing error:
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mkfs.exe3
Try mkfs.ext3 instead.
 
Old 02-03-2007, 04:16 PM   #3
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Looks like a typing error:


Try mkfs.ext3 instead.

It will get you every time. Thanks. And to think of all the time I spent trying to find the problem befor I posted.
 
  


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