Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 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 What are the parameters used by the installer to format a partition? I believe it's simply "mke2fs -j $DEVICE" but I may be wrong. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/