CentOS - Jan 2007 - Changing the file type

I have a USB external drive that has not been used with my Linux 
system.  The HD is from a Windows system, so it has a NTFS file system.  
My manuals speak of the fdisk -t command to change the file type, 
however that does not appear to be available with Centos.  Could someone 
refer me to the steps I should use to change the file type, change to 
partition if necessary, create a Linux file system and then set it up so 
that when I plug in the USB drive it will automatically mount (if possible).

Todd

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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:47 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have a USB external drive that has not been used with my Linux 
> system.  The HD is from a Windows system, so it has a NTFS file system.  
> My manuals speak of the fdisk -t command to change the file type, 
> however that does not appear to be available with Centos.  Could someone 
> refer me to the steps I should use to change the file type, change to 
> partition if necessary, create a Linux file system and then set it up so 
> that when I plug in the USB drive it will automatically mount (if
possible).
You can not modify a filesystem to simply switch from ntfs to ext3 ...
You'll need to use fdisk to remove the ntfs partition, create a new
linux one, and then format it with mkfs.ext3 ...

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Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>
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