how to format disk?

Niflheim · 03-03-2005, 06:43 PM

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

Stealth870 · 03-03-2005, 07:32 PM

cfdisk?

Niflheim · 03-03-2005, 07:51 PM

i thought that would be an easy question

perfect_circle · 03-03-2005, 07:56 PM

if you have already partitioned something, mkfs will build a filesystem

Niflheim · 03-03-2005, 07:59 PM

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?

perfect_circle · 03-03-2005, 08:32 PM

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?

well, you do not want to format a partition. You want to delete partitions....
so fdisk or cfdisk is the command you need

Niflheim · 03-04-2005, 09:59 AM

cfdisk worked fine
thanks!!