Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Commands Continued..

Format a Filesystem
mkfs /dev/hda1 create a filesystem type linux on hda1 partition
mke2fs /dev/hda1 create a filesystem type linux ext2 on hda1 partition
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 create a filesystem type linux ext3 (journal) on hda1 partition
mkfs -t vfat 32 -F /dev/hda1 create a FAT32 filesystem
fdformat -n /dev/fd0 format a floppy disk
mkswap /dev/hda3 create a swap filesystem

SWAP filesystem
mkswap /dev/hda3 create a swap filesystem
swapon /dev/hda3 activating a new swap partition
swapon /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb3 activate two swap partitions

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