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03-03-2005, 06:43 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Québec
Distribution: Mandrake 10.1 Official
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how to format disk?
well that's it. im using debian but i cant start x so im stuck in the command line. id like to know what do i have to do in order to format my whole disk from there? everything, including linux and yeah.
so what do i do?
thanks 
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03-03-2005, 07:32 PM
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cfdisk?
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03-03-2005, 07:51 PM
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i thought that would be an easy question
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03-03-2005, 07:56 PM
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
Distribution: Slackware, arch
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if you have already partitioned something, mkfs will build a filesystem
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03-03-2005, 07:59 PM
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yeah i have already seen "mkfs"
i have a / partition, a /home partition and three windows partitions.
what do i do to delete them all?
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03-03-2005, 08:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Niflheim
yeah i have already seen "mkfs"
i have a / partition, a /home partition and three windows partitions.
what do i do to delete them all?
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well, you do not want to format a partition. You want to delete partitions....
so fdisk or cfdisk is the command you need
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03-04-2005, 09:59 AM
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Location: Québec
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cfdisk worked fine
thanks!! 
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