long story short:
have a hard drive with windows and a really bad virus
i want to format the disk (sda1) useing the command prompt
i am running puppy from a live cd
what is this command?
how to format hardrive in puppy useing command line
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Re: how to format hardrive in puppy useing command line
If you are running puppy from live cd, you can click on desktop, select system, then select gparted partition manager and follow the prompts.dan0804smith wrote:long story short:
have a hard drive with windows and a really bad virus
i want to format the disk (sda1) useing the command prompt
i am running puppy from a live cd
what is this command?
This gives you the option of formattnig fat32, ntfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, etc.
I am running lucid puppy 525 and lupu 268 and format drive to be ext4 partition. Seems to work better.
Also, have found this to be a very easy way to format drive and to also create multiple partitions on the drive.
This not exactly what you asked for for, but hope it helps
marjorfoo
To format to ext3 file system it's:
(Assuming sda1 is the unmounted target partition)
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mke2fs -j /dev/sda1