formatting hard drive partition

Janus_Hyperion · 01-20-2012, 06:23 PM

If you installed Linux Mint 12 last, it will be the one which handles your GRUB (assuming default settings) - which I believe will be your case. gparted is a utility that is useful in handling partitions. It's home page.

I believe, gparted is installed in Mint by default. if not, you can easily install it using sudo apt-get install gparted.

Hope this helps.

catkin · 01-20-2012, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Upendra Pratap Singh

Can that partition(containing linux mint 10 julia) be formatted from linux Mint 12 environment. It is because this partition is not visible in Windows.

All partitions are visible in Windows. Some file systems are not visible.

EDIT: all partitions should be visible in Windows. If you prefer command line tools to graphical tools then fdisk, cfdisk and parted are usually available. I prefer cfdisk. If questions asked on LQ are a guide, parted is seldom used and partition problems are most likely using gparted.