New to Linux - Filesystem formatting.

[Duncan Lithgow]

On 6/20/05, Patrick Luk <pluk at impressio.ca> wrote:
> 1)      What can use to redo my fdisk (partition) of disk? I've created a 5
> gig of a 250 gig hard drive for RAID testing purpose and which to increase
> it now.
What format is that partition? fat can be resized, but ext cannot -
PartitionMagic is the only one for resizing ntfs

> 2)      To format it, do I use make2fs? It seems this is for few filesystems
> format. Is it different tool depending the filesystem?
try using parted, or the gui qtparted - you can get this on the
bootable SystemRescueCD

Duncan