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- > If there's an easier way to format an ext2 partition please someone tell
- > me. It's not possible to format it and use the following method of
- > installation by using the formatter built in to the redhat installer,
- > since the installer requires a RedHat distribution tree to have been seen
- > before it'll format anything. A simple program that formats a given
- > partition would be nice, and would save a lot of trouble.
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- Such a program exists, naturally. Download e2fsutils-x.y.tar.gz from a
- recent mirror of sunsite.unc.edu (or perhaps tsx-11.mit.edu). The one
- on src.doc is woefully out of date. The latest version of e2fsutils
- that I'm aware of is version 1.10. You want the program called mke2fs,
- though this package also contains e2fsck, dumpe2fs and some other
- interesting programs.
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