[wellylug] mke2fs

Glenn Morrissey glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 16:42:17 NZST 2012


Hi All

Im wanting to format my 500Gb HD with Ext4 File system. The current
command I have been able to acsertain is:

mke2fs -cctv ext4 /dev/sda

Now I believe this does a bad block check before formatting. I want to
do a proper ms dos-like format, not just a quick format. Is there any
other options that I should use in this command?
Do I need to set block size? Please let me know.

Cheers
Glenn.



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