Re: partitioning

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 12/23/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:22:35 -0700

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:51:57 GMT
StvyLife <cuteherestvylife@mindspring.com> wrote:

>
> (g)ood bye fat32 then
>

Unless you're dual-booting with a Windows version that uses NTFS, then
you'd want a FAT32 partition to share files between them. :-)

>
> ps. oh yeah what tool to use is the ability to format buit in?

   man mkfs
or
   pinfo mkfs

You generally only need to low-level format floppies (man fdformat)
and then you put a filesystem on it (mkfs.dosfs, mkdosfs, etc.) while
with hard disk partitions you simply make a filesystem on it (mke2fs,
mkfs.ext2, etc.). For a little more info on filesystem types you can
use with mkfs, try:

   man fs

To get more in-depth info on it, check out http://www.tldp.org and
read through some of the HOWTOs and other documentation.

This is a very brief intro leaving out *many* details, but should
give you a feeling for it . . . :-) 

-- 
Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
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