Re: Utilities to format partition?

[Rick Forrister <rickf glacier jpl nasa gov>]

"Reuben D. Budiardja" wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've been using fdisk since the mid-90's on an extremely mixed variety
of drives, and never had a glitch.  It's been quite reliable.

rickf


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