I have a 32GB USB drive on a pogoplug. It was formatted in NTFS. I want to make it ext3 to make writes to the drive less resource intensive.
So, I unmounted it:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'u')mount /dev/sdc1
mkfs.ext3, but the drive still shows up as NTFS?
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mkfs.ext3, but the drive still shows up as NTFS?
by permitivity » Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:20 am
Then I formatted it:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')kfs.ext3 -L 32GBUSB /dev/sdc1
It looked like the mkfs was doing stuff, because it listed a bunch of stuff and was taking time to format it. And the files that were in the drive have been deleted.
After it complets, I do a "fdisk -l", this is the output:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
') Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 8064 61800447 30896192 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Shouldn't the "system" column list it as "ext3" or "Linux"? Do I need to delete the partition before I can create it?
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