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format windows hd's to linux format - anyweb - 2006-03-28 i had a windows 2003 server which i have recently converted to Fedora Core release 4 the install basically used the first hdd (as i told it to) and the remaining three hd's still had the original 'dynamic disc NTFS' format on them from Windows 2003 server. I wanted to format all the other three hd's to Ext3 filesystem (for journalling) and to do so i had to first change the partition info from the SFS filesystem to LINUX here's the output before i did anything Quote:[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l so above, as you can see,. /dev/hda1 is already in linux format (actually it's a LVM logical volume manager format which Fedora Core defaults to) and i want to change the other three hd's from SFS (dynamic disks in windows 2003 server) to Ext3 linux. first off, i need to re-partition the hard disc's one by one, so i started with /dev/hdb login as root and do this Code: fdisk /dev/hdb you will now be given some info like this Quote:The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14593.There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,now type the letter 't' as follows:- Code: Command (m for help): t and now tell it what filesystem you want (83=linux) Code: Hex code (type L to list codes): 83 finally you need to write those changes so do that with a simple 'w' Code: Command (m for help): w to verify that the changes are made as root do Code: fdisk -l as you see below, /dev/hdb is now type 83=linux Quote:[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l ok, now that's all done, you need to format the hdd to your chosen filesystem, i chose ext3 and this is how i did it Code: mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 it won't take long, and once done you'll see something like this scroll by,, Quote:mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)Filesystem label=and that's it, only two more hdd's to go ! thanks to znx and omegaevil for assistance with this, and below please see the 5 line version of this howto ;-) Quote:fdisk /dev/hdbt cheers anyweb format windows hd's to linux format - xDamox - 2006-03-29 Good tutorial anyweb |