Re: Utilities to format partition?

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <reubendb innovativethought com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 08:36, Kevin Myers wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2002 08:43:24 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >I have an old NTFS partition in my /dev/hda1. I'd like to re-format it
> >to ext3 partition. Is there such utility in linux/Redhat, so I don't
> >have to reboot and use other partition software?
> >I don't care about preserving data, since I simply don't need the
> >partition anylonger, and would like to use the available space.
> 
> man fdisk

I did 'man fdisk' couple times before, and I still don't understand how
to use it. Forgive my ignorant please. Furthermore, at the end of 'man
fdisk' in the 'Bugs' section:
"fdisk is a buggy program that  does  fuzzy
       things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results.
       Its single advantage is that it has some support  for  BSD
       disk  labels and other non-DOS partition tables."

So, I am not really confident to just type fdisk. I don't want to loose
my other stuff. 
Thanks.
Reuben D. Budiardja

 
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