[CentOS] Changing the file type
Fabian Arrotin
fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Tue Jan 30 21:03:32 UTC 2007
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 ...
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Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
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