Re: [CentOS] Changing the file type

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:47 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:

I have a USB external drive that has not been used with my Linux system. The HD is from a Windows system, so it has a NTFS file system. My manuals speak of the fdisk -t command to change the file type, however that does not appear to be available with Centos. Could someone refer me to the steps I should use to change the file type, change to partition if necessary, create a Linux file system and then set it up so that when I plug in the USB drive it will automatically mount (if possible).

You can not modify a filesystem to simply switch from ntfs to ext3 ... You'll need to use fdisk to remove the ntfs partition, create a new linux one, and then format it with mkfs.ext3 ...