How to format a new Linux partition with the command line.
This is how to format a hard disk partition that will hold data for your Linux system. The partition must be unmounted before formatting, but this is the ideal way to create a file-system on a new partition that has been created with fdisk. root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4dev root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd3 mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/sdd3 … Read more