2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
5:35 p.m.
Todd,
Todd Cary wrote:
I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it. There are several questions that come up:
How can I determine the current format?
Do I use the mkfs command?
You can pretty much format it any way you want. fdisk /media/disk, then p, will tell you what it thinks it is; change the type with a t if you want something different. Partition it as you like - it's just a storage medium.
My USB key that I have set up to install CentOS from has a 10M DOS partition, and the rest of the 8G is ext3 (or did I make it ext2 - I forget).
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