How do I format other partitioned drives?

p.z · 08-26-2003, 11:31 AM

How do I format some of the partitioned drives on my system?

i.e. I'm trying to convert a fat32 to ext 2filesystem but want to format it first.

fancypiper · 08-26-2003, 11:36 AM

p.z · 08-26-2003, 01:20 PM

bash: mke2fs: command not found

slakmagik · 08-26-2003, 01:41 PM

Need to be root and, I think, have e2fsprogs installed. Something like that.

fancypiper · 08-26-2003, 01:55 PM

To change to the root account, use these commands from your user account. Note the change in the prompt.

Code:

[fancy@tinwhistle fancy]$ su -
Password: 
[root@tinwhistle root]#