How do you take Linux off of a hard drive?

[KevinO]

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Michael Havens wrote:
> If you want to make a file system on hda5, do this command:
> mkfs -t vfat -c /dev/hda5
> to make a fat32 filesystem in that partition.
> ---
> It responded with:
>     Attempting to create a too large filesystem.
>
> What the heck does that mean? Rather, how do I push my creation through the
> seive (funnel)?

If you are just going to put Winders on this drive, why don't you just remove
the partitions and do it with the MS tools? They will work (as well as they
ever do) once you clean out the partition table.

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KevinO

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