On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> and was wondering how in the world do you make the file system type ext 3. In
> cfdisk you go in there and ext3 isn't a choice.The closest that is there is
> Linux Extended. I am trying to make it ext3 because that is what I have
> knowledge of (limited as it may be) but tell me what you all believe to be
> best if it is not ext3 and tell us all why.
fdisk and cfdisk will let you specify the partition type, which would
typically be either Linux (type 83) or Linux swap (82). This has
nothing to do with what filesystem you put on it.
How you do that depends on how you're doing this. It varies depending
on the installer if you're doing it during an install, or see mkfs(8) if
you're doing this from an already-set-up system.
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