[linux-help] Re: formating a linux partition

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, Disk Druid isn't all that new... it existed in RH 4.2, I know...
probably earlier, too.  (Unless I'm thinking of something else... ?)

It's also fairly handicapped, IMO... I much prefer the standard Linux
'fdisk' or 'cfdisk' (available at least in Debian)


On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:42:18PM -0500, Matt Alexander wrote:
> I have heard of both, disk druid is the new one bundled with red hat 6.2.
> How do I use one of them, don't they need to be on a boot disk?
> 
>                                   -Matt Alexander
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Steven Saner
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:37 PM
> To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: formating a linux partition
> 
> Oh, my bad. You should be able to use the Linux fdisk to delete the
> partition. I am not familiar with disk druid.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:32:33PM -0500, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > I don't want to format the contents of the partition but rather DELETE the
> > whole thing. The partition was created when I installed Linux, it used
> disk
> > druid. It doesn't say what system the partition used.
> >
> > I can't format it because it says it is not a supported partition type.
> >
> >
> >                                   -Matt Alexander
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Steven Saner
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:22 PM
> > To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [linux-help] Re: formating a linux partition
> >
> > There is a difference between partitioning a drive and formating a
> > partition. I assumed that you used the Linux fdisk to create the
> > partition, and you successfully changed the type of the partition to
> > something like FAT16. If not, then go back and see about that.
> >
> > Where it looks like you are going wrong is that you do not need to use
> > the DOS fdisk for anything. fdisk does not format a partition, it
> > creates and deletes partitions. You need to use the DOS program
> > "format" to actually format the partition.
> >
> > Hopefully that gets you going. If not, you might send a list of the
> > partitions that you are trying to create and we can attempt more
> > complete advice.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:07:00PM -0500, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > I have tried formatting a Linux partition (actually a dos partition [an
> > > extended partition] but partitioned by Linux) with dos's fdisk command
> but
> > > am having problems (figures doesn't it?).  When I tell it to format an
> > > extended partition, which it is, It tells me I can't partition it
> because
> > > logical partitions exist inside this ext. partition.  So when I try to
> > > delete those logical partitions it says "No logical Partitions defined".
> > > If you ask me, that's sorta' screwed up.
> > >
> > > Is there something I am doing wrong or is there another way that works?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I used the word partition or a different tense of partition 10 times,
> not
> > > including the two time I just used it in this sentence.  :)
> > >
> > >
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