RE: Utilities to format partition?

[Weimer_Markus emc com]

You can simple do that under RH with "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1" but be aware that
you are loosing all your data on that partition !!! also see the manpage of
mkfs.ext3 for the possible options.

best regards,

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Markus Weimer


-----Original Message-----
From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:reubendb innovativethought com]
Sent: Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2002 14:43
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Utilities to format partition?


Hi,
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.

Thanks in advance for any info
Reuben D. Budiardja