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Author Topic: formatting ext2/ext3 drives on a Doremi Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 02-20-2019 05:37 AM                     I am on a remote location, and it was necessary to format a SATA disc with an ext2/3 filesystem. I was puzzled to find that parted is not available from the Doremis bash. mkfs is there, but, the drive did not have a valid partition table on it. I solved it by formatting the drive on a Mac (USB connected) with a simple FAT32 MSDOS partition, then issue mkfs on the Doremi. Does anyone know a way to create a useful partition table with the terminal on a Doremi? Would be handy to have a 'Doremi only' solution for this. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 02-20-2019 05:47 AM                     If the disk is smaller than 2TB, then "fdisk" should still do the trick. I'm not able to test it right now, but "fdisk" support is also available for busybox as builtin command.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 02-20-2019 06:04 AM                     Stupid me, I was so sold on fdisk being an MSDOS/windows shell command, I didn't even try... Let's see... edit: yes, fdisk works... - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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