[PLUG] Reformat a partition

Rogan Creswick creswick at cs.orst.edu
Wed Dec 17 08:50:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:50:05AM -0800, Stafford A. Rau wrote:
> * Rogan Creswick <creswick at cs.orst.edu> [031217 07:27]:
> > mke2fs -j /dev/<partition>
> > 
> > will make it an ext3 partition. Your other partitions should be safe.
>                   ^^^^
>              ITYM ext2

The -j switch tells it to make an ext3 partition.

Or just use mkfs.ext3 /dev/<partition>

> 
> You'll need to umount the partition first, run mke2fs, then mount it
> again as an ext2 partition.
> 
> Also, be sure to edit your /etc/fstab and change the partition type to
> ext2 so it will be mounted correctly at next boot.
> 

Good points :), those steps slipped my mind.

-Rogan

> --Stafford
> 
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