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HDD formating

Chlumec
wrote 350 days ago

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Hello,
i need to format my HDD, is there an option to format it directly in Slax or i need download some module (can you recommend me some) ?
Thanks
 
jcsoh
wrote 349 days ago

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http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=319
 
eyvind
wrote 270 days ago

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You can always use Parted Magic (Linux)
It's a live Cd where the program Gparted are incl.
http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start
It's free
 
agreimann
wrote 270 days ago

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I thought I'd chime in that there's some great tools, like the regular parted, that you can use in addition to the GUI tools in Slax (or other distros as well).
 
burninbush
wrote 270 days ago

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Dunno why it couldn't be formatted directly from Slax.

Do an #ls -l /sbin/mkfs*

to see the various filesystems that can be formatted by Slax. Here's what that command shows for this Slack 13.37 I'm running at the moment ...

root@slack1337-32-amd64:~# ls -l /sbin/mkfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4888 Feb 16 2011 /sbin/mkfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10020 Feb 16 2011 /sbin/mkfs.bfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 105360 Mar 29 2011 /sbin/mkfs.btrfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18076 Feb 16 2011 /sbin/mkfs.cramfs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -> mke2fs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -> mke2fs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.ext4 -> mke2fs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.ext4dev -> mke2fs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.jfs -> jfs_mkfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19208 Feb 16 2011 /sbin/mkfs.minix*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.msdos -> mkdosfs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.ntfs -> /usr/sbin/mkntfs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.reiserfs -> mkreiserfs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 28 19:35 /sbin/mkfs.vfat -> mkdosfs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 264472 Mar 23 2011 /sbin/mkfs.xfs*
root@slack1337-32-amd64:~#
 
jcsoh
wrote 270 days ago

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"Dunno why it couldn't be formatted directly from Slax. "

For anyone less than an "expert" , I think it is still best /safest to use a gui drive solution to avoid errors such as formatting the wrong partition , especially if you have more than one media mounted , and numerous partitions.
 
jayflood
wrote 268 days ago

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Judging by OP's question they want to nuke the entire drive:

i need to format my HDD

Still more info is needed. What do you intend to do AFTER you format the HDD? Install windows? Install slax? Install some other linux flavour? use it as storage?

umount /dev/sda1
mkdosfs /dev/sda1

Be warned you will lose everything that once existed on this first partition. If this is not the desired outcome, then go with a GUI boot disk type thing.
 
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