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30 Jun
2003
30 Jun
'03
13:23
Hi Trey
From: Trey [mailto:urlik.skarsol@verizon.net] Hello, I'm only familar with formatting in Windows. I have a area of my 2nd drive partioined/formated with old data I no longer need. Rather than just delete the tons of files/folders, I just figured I'd reformat it.
Try "mkfs" (make filesystem) which reformats your partition. It's the equivalent to "format" under DOS/Windows
I don't want to change its fstab entry, or repartion it. Should this be done in yast2? If so how? Or is the CL better? If so how?
But " rm -rf /path/to/directory/* " will do ;-) (ATTENTION!!! after this command, all files and directories from /path/to/directory are gone!)
Thanks in advance, -Trey
cheers, Stefan