[CLUE-Tech] drive formatting

Jeremiah Stanley jeremiahstanley at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 4 14:21:49 MST 2001


> mkfs -t ext[2 | 3] or whatever /dev/sdnm, where n is the the drive letter
> according to the device, and M is the partition.

Just to clarify, I think that you have to use this command to get ext3
support:

/sbin/mkfs -j -t ext2

and then mount that as ext3, the -j option tells mkfs to add the journaling
information.

JStanley

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