# This absolutely blanks the disk jpennington@eureka:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 dd: /dev/fd0: No space left on device 2881+0 records in 2880+0 records out # This sets up the ext2 file system on the disk jpennington@eureka:/ > /sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 mke2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done # This ensures that we did it right :) Note /dev/fd0 has 13 used blocks; this # is for the lost+found file system. jpennington@eureka:/ > mount /dev/fd0 jpennington@eureka:/ > df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 5741928 1884592 3560940 35% / /dev/hda3 2048000 472480 1575520 23% /win /dev/hda5 127918 106809 14283 88% /home /dev/hda1 7496 974 6122 14% /boot /dev/fd0 1412 13 1327 1% /floppy # Corrections/Flames welcome :) -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/