[TriLUG] creating ext3 partitions on the command line

[John Matthews]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 16:31, sgblanch wrote:
> I am trying to create some ext3 partitions by hand on a redhat 7.2 box, 
> but can not find the command to format the partitions. parted complains 
> that it does not have an implementation for ext3, and there is no 
> mkfs.ext3, or mke3fs. I am somewhat befuddled at this...

Look at the man page for mke2fs. Search for ext3. The commands are in
there.

Yes, it is confusing to have to look there. :^|

Regards,
matt

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