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 ... -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070130/74e0c1d6/attachment-0005.sig>