On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 at 2:41pm, Mark Hull-Richter wrote > What is the best way to accomplish step two of this - reformatting the > partition? I've only done this so far during the installation phase, > and that was for partitions I knew I could destroy with impunity. I'm > guessing I unmount the drive, <do something magic here> and remount it. > It's the magic part I don't know. 'man mke2fs' has all the details. I usually do: mke2fs -b 4096 -j -m 1 -O dir_index $DEVICE -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University