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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Blu,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I wish
to format a external Seagate drive that currently has a NTFS filesystem on
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The device is
connected the system as \dev\sda1- via usb cable</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I ran
the "mke2fs -j /dev/sda1" - I thought it would format the drive with e2fs - but
it did not-</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I 'm puzzled-
fdisk - gives no option to format anything but partitions using
RHE4.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen Goldman<BR>Systems Administrator<BR>MIT
Biology 68-371<BR>617-452-2950<BR><A
href="mailto:sgoldman@mit.edu">sgoldman@mit.edu</A></FONT></DIV>
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