10.1. Formating Partitions
At the shell prompt, I begin making the file systems on my partitions. Continuing with the example in (see Section 5.3 ), this is:
# mke2fs /dev/sda1
I need to do this for each of my partitions, but not for /dev/sda4 (my extended partition). Linux supports types of file systems other than ext2. You can find out what kinds your kernel supports by looking in: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h
The most common file systems can be made with programs in /sbin that start with "mk" like mkfs.msdos and mke2fs .
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