Re: Utilities to format partition?

[Emmanuel Seyman <seyman acticiel com>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:43:24AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja 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?

Run the command "fdisk".
In fdisk, type "t", "1", "83" then "w".
You can then format the partition by using the command "mke2fs -j /dev/hda1".
You shouldn 't have to reboot.

Emmanuel

PS: I'm going by memory so please double-check before doing anything.