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It has been awhile since I did my last LFS build and I'm ready to do it again. I'm starting with my laptop using the live CD. My problem is it currently is running Slackware 10.1 and has four partitions( /, /usr, swap, /home). How do I 'erase' / and /usr so I can use them for LFS? TIA!
Assuming your drive is /dev/hda, and the partitions are numbered in the order you've given:
ie:
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/hda2 /usr
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/hda4 /home
If you just want to reformat them as ext3:
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2
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