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1. yah thats good for understand………

2. i have 48TB storage server in raid 5, how do i format this server?

   1. to format the corresponding hdd you need a RAM(Random Access Memory) 1 YB(yota byte)
      1YB=1024 ZB
      1ZB=1024 XB
      1XB=1024 PB
      1PB=1024 TB

      1. That’s retarded.

      2. LOL, I’ve got 1 UB (UnniByte) RAM on my Server

         1UB=1024YB
         1YB=1024 ZB
         1ZB=1024 XB
         1XB=1024 PB
         1PB=1024 TB

         Is it possible to format my 1.4 MB floppy now?

      3. I have 90’90 power of per zylions! So what? You’ve only got a pint of milk!!! does your processor register ????

3. Aniket,

   Use LVM directly or read this tutorial which explains how to create partition larger than 2TB

4. How do I format a harddisk using linux system call

5. hi,

   thank you fro valuable information

6. how to format a disk by cpp programe?is there any sample code ?

7. Hi,

   Thank you very much this valuable information.

   Regards,
   Nagarajan.S.G

8. /dev/sdb1 /disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2

   The above line what is mean by defaults and what is 1 2 ?

   can u explain those two things !

   1. This is directly from the arch linux (amazing) documentation:

      1. The first number is “dump”: used by the dump utility to decide when to make a backup. Dump checks the entry and uses the number to decide if a file system should be backed up. Possible entries are 0 and 1. If 0, dump will ignore the file system; if 1, dump will make a backup. Most users will not have dump installed, so they should put 0 for the entry.
      2. The second number is “pass”: used by fsck to decide which order filesystems are to be checked. Possible entries are 0, 1 and 2. The root file system should have the highest priority 1 – all other file systems you want to have checked should have a 2. File systems with a value 0 will not be checked by the fsck utility.

      1. Thanks bjaanes

9. IN my system both WINDOWS-XP and LINUX , I’ve installed. after that
   I want to format the linux OS from my system.
   so please send to me tricks or method on Email addr., so i can remove LUNUX OS from my system.
   BY both method (i)Text command and
   (ii)without Text command.

   1. Hey man I also have same problem .did u got any methods to remove . please help man

10. verrrrrrrrry useful i’ve searched for 2 days for this thanks

11. Hi,

    Thank you very much this valuable information. Very useful this

    Thanks
    B. Sathish.

12. I have installed CentOS ..
    now i want my disk to be fully formatted like a new one. with no files on it..

    i remember doing it by booting in DOS mode in Win98..
    Please tell how can i do it..

13. Thank you.
    nice and clear.

14. Excellent and easy. Thanx

15. Nice information and esp. the link that you posted for Anikat. Information really useful pal. Thanks a ton..

    Regards
    Charanjit Singh Cheema

16. Thank you, this is the kind of fast reference that one is always looking for

17. Well, this saved me an hour of banging my head against the wall… well written! thanks!

18. Yes. Very useful. Thanks.

19. help me to see the out put of the php programe, i have php 2007 developer

20. god bless you

21. Very simple and useful, thanks :)

22. Great. Searched for a long time to find this, very well done. Thanks!

23. Can any one tell me what the mean by 1,2 in default and when i create a raid partition is there any change in default charcter or it is sama as ” default” .

24. IN my Laptop both WINDOWS-XP and LINUX, i’ve safe the problem in windows hal.dll file is corrupted.
    so please send to me tricks or method on Email addr.

25. Good Recipe for what I did in UNIX for years with the simple format command.
    You boiled it down to an excellent example…

26. very helpfull , thanks.

27. very first command (fdisk /dev/sdb) failed. message is “Unable to open /dev/sdb”. any suggestions?

28. Hello all,

    Is there any software to bound two NIC to use on ip address for both NICs.

    Thanks

    1. See our tutorial for more info.

29. Thank you very much these are very good and easy way commands to understand for the people.

30. how to format linex form my system plz reply solution at my email

31. thanks alot ,,,,, that was really usefull

32. how many formatting for window and linux
    plz sand ams on my email address

33. I deleted the panel in ubuntu by mistake.. how can i get the default panels?

34. The above steps are so good and easy to format

    Thank u Very much for your Formating steps.

35. a very nice article. thank you for sharing.

36. how do installed linux …. with command ???? tell me all command…????

37. IN my system both WINDOWS-XP and LINUX , I’ve installed. after that
    I want to format the linux OS from my system.
    so please send to me tricks or method on Email addr., so i can remove LUNUX OS from my system.
    BY both method (i)Text command and
    (ii)without Text command.

38. Good article.
    Note: this works on centos 5.5 … fyi.

39. This is beautiful!!! There are some who care out there..

40. IN my system both WINDOWS-XP and LINUX , I’ve installed. after that
    I want to format the linux OS from my system.
    so please send to me tricks or method on Email addr., so i can remove LUNUX OS from my system.
    BY both method
    (i)Text command and
    (ii)without Text command.

    1. Hi Naren…I need to format my linux suse10.3 from my system.Will you please help me how to do.i am very new to this linux.If u have any tricks means please send me that files also.Aravind
       Thank you

41. Good tuto, thank you

42. very good solution thanks…

43. Very Good solution.

    Thanks

44. just wanted to let you know you just saved my life, cheers mate

45. Vivek Gite U R GREAT
    MY HDD WAS DETCTED BUT WAS NOT BOOTING AND WAS ALSO DENYING FRESH INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS AND WAS RETURNING SOME STOP ERROR …. BUT AFTER FORMATING ONE OF MY PARTITION IN SLAX NOW EVERYTHING IS BACK TO NORMAL AND IT ALSO SAVED MY TONNES OF DATA

46. I am using VMWare version 8 to run backtrack 5 and I added another hard drive to it. How do I format the drive to place a rainbow table on the said drive?

    1. Very good and concise tutorial, thank you.

47. HI,

    I have a FS created with the below cmd and started using fine.

    mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
    (/dev/sdb1 been allocated from SAN with 1 TB capacity)

    Now, I have resized the disk /dev/sdb1 to 2 TB from the SAN. After this my filesystem doesn’t show the resized capacity of 2 TB :(, it still shows as 1 TB. What has to be done to get the FS space resized without data loss ?

    Please help with this.

    Thank you.
    Cheers,
    Vicky

48. Very clear & complete. Keep it up..!

49. hi
    I have 640GB. how to format this hard disk for Linux operating system?
    Please help me solution…..

50. I think you make a wrong typing in mkfs. In the line is hdb not sdb. ok?

51. I have 1.60GB. how to format this hard disk of Linux OS System. I have try but disk not detected for formatting. I want to OS Windows
    Please help me solution…..

52. thank to much sir

53. Written in a clear and simple!!
    Thank you :)

54. I am extremely techie challenged :( I do not know what kind of linux I have on my laptop. All I want to do is format my USB drive but I receive an error message.

    Sorry, could not display all the contents of “THE GALILEO”: Error when getting information for file ‘/media/sarah/THE GALILEO/FOUND.000’: Input/output error

    Easy way to correct and format?

55. Thanks!!!

56. could you tell me about how install linux in pc step by step?

57. U ttract from teh very stupid peeple.

    Canopener u tell me hot to format my hippocampus with using dd from commander lion?

    I tired “# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hippo1”

    but a large aminal dieded instead.

    God blast you and tanks

58. thank you so much for share this Document and when I saw it make me clear for do my assignment.

    Thank you

59. Simple and clear. thank you!

60. Excellent thank you so much.

61. I have some read errors that are causing the log tree to fail to recover. The HD seems to function but I have been unsuccessful at repairing or reinstalling Opensuse OS. I keep finding commands to try but when I try them I get “command not found”. Finally I thought I would reformat but I can’t even get the fdisk commands described here to work either. What do I do?

62. where should i go ? because im looking the step by step reformat of ebondo?linux?

63. Very useful, thanks!!

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