format hardisk on slackware
 

hi
i have a problem because i use for 1 week slackware
and before windows xp
i have 2 disk's in /mnt
named
D and E
the partitions are NTFS why did i to that because i have mp3's etc on that disk
and other stuff i dont wanna lose
the problem i have now is i can only read not write to the disks

/mnt/E is empty now how can i format it to ext2 or ext3 whatever ?
can anybody help me thanks

first unmout it :

#umount /mnt/E

then format the partition

#mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdxx ( where hdxx ---->the partition you want to format )

then edit your fstab to change the filesystem of that part.

egag

If you have both Linux and Windows and want to handle files from either, you'd be better off making it a FAT32 partition rather than NTFS or a Linux-type fs. Windows has an even harder time with non-Windows partitions than Linux does with NTFS. FAT32 is kind of the demilitarized zone. ;)

digiot
no am usin only slackware
don't use windows on this computer
:)

Oh, okay - then you definitely *don't* want FAT32. Not the best filesystem in the world. :)