Re: [opensuse] how can be formated a external USB hard disk in konsole? Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Herbert Graeber wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 16:36:01 schrieb Victor Antonio ChÃ¡vez 
>> de Anda:
>>> i don't know the command for format a hard disk (i know thankx to god
>>> isn't windows, but i try format and doesn't work) please, can anyone
>>> help me?
>>
>> Ther are many ways to do this, depending from your need. There are 
>> several file system types and parameters. Here is the commend for a 
>> simple ext3 format (You have to replace XXX by your partitions name, 
>> eg. /dev/sdb1 for the first partion of you second drive):
>>
>>     sudo mke2fs -j /dev/XXX
>>
>> Enter "man mk2fs" or "#mke2fs" in konquereor if you use it to get more 
>> information.
> 
> eww!!!! NO!!!!
> 
> A USB disk should DEFINITELY have a journalled filesystem
> on it... ext3, reiserfs or xfs.

Unfortunately, those won't work, if you plan to use that drive with 
Windows systems.  All my flash drives are formatted FAT32, except for 
one that has an encrypted file system on it.

On the other hand, my USB attached hard drives, one 160 GB and the other 
500 GB are formatted with Reiser 3.




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