/bckupdrv how big?

[Paul Osman]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:06 -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >All of these things I mention you would do in fdisk.  I would even delete the
> >partition and the partition table from fdisk, if you can.  Start fdisk with the
> >command /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb.  Use m to view your choices.  Knowing that, try
> >those steps again.
> >  
> >
> Yeah, that's what I've been doing every time. I create with n, and 
> save/exit with w. Where is the option to format?
> 
> <snip>

There is no "format" program that I know of in linux. You create
ext2/ext3 filesystems with the mke2fs program. (read the man page for
options for creating different ext2/ext3 filesystems). 

Cheers,
Paul

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