At Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:47:59 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:27:00 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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?
Many thanks...
Todd
Here is a step-by-step explaination (and I am going to give the CLI method -- *I* don't have a clue about how to do with with the point-and-click interface):
Fire up an Terminal window (it should be on the right-click menu under GNome), then in this window type [I will assume you have sudo privs, otherwise you need to be root (it is not recomended that you actually log in as root)]
# Get some information about the disk, includes the physical device name # and its /bin/mount | grep /media/disk # Unmount the disk (be sure to close any open windows relating to the disk) sudo /bin/umount -v /media/disk # Format the disk or partition. Replace <type> with the type you want # (ext2, ext3, vfat, and maybe some others). Replace <mumble> with the # device file reported above. sudo /sbin/mkfs -t <type> /dev/<mumble>
There should be man pages for all of these commands (accessable with the 'man' command):
man mount man umount man mkfs man sudo
Who is that "sudo" guy you keep writing about: ;-) RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, not debian.
Huh? I use CentOS and use sudo. I have never used debian or ubuntu. sudo predates all versions of Linux anyway. I was using it under SunOS (*before* it became Solaris), as well as Ultrix (DECStations) and Irix (SGIs).
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