[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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