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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:
I have a USB memory stick and may one day need an external hard drive. When bought how will they be formatted? And if I would like them to be formatted to eg EXT4 what would be the best utility to use?
They're usually pre-formatted.Get your command-line out and work out what device it's come up as, or just type
fdisk -l and you'll get all devices. For 'formatting', use the mkfs command. e.g. mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 if it's sdb1...However what will probably happen is that your distro-du-jour will have auto-mounted it for you which should stop you being able to format it. You'll need to work out how to unmount it, or stop your distro auto-mounting it at plug-in time before you can re-format it.
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