Help formatting a Seagate 400 Gig drive

[sgoldman at MIT.EDU (Stephen Goldman)]

Hello Blu,
        I wish to format a external Seagate drive that currently has a NTFS filesystem on it.

        The device is connected the system as \dev\sda1- via usb cable

        I ran the "mke2fs -j /dev/sda1" - I thought it would format the drive with e2fs - but it did not-

        I 'm puzzled- fdisk - gives no option to format anything but partitions using RHE4.

Thanks,
Stephen

Stephen Goldman
Systems Administrator
MIT Biology 68-371
617-452-2950
sgoldman at mit.edu

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