Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: formatting ext2/ext3 drives on a Doremi

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Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 02-20-2019, 05:37 AM:

I am on a remote location, and it was necessary to format a SATA disc with an ext2/3 filesystem. I was puzzled to find that parted is not available from the Doremis bash. mkfs is there, but, the drive did not have a valid partition table on it. I solved it by formatting the drive on a Mac (USB connected) with a simple FAT32 MSDOS partition, then issue mkfs on the Doremi.

Does anyone know a way to create a useful partition table with the terminal on a Doremi? Would be handy to have a 'Doremi only' solution for this.

- Carsten

Posted by Marcel Birgelen (Member # 6801) on 02-20-2019, 05:47 AM:

If the disk is smaller than 2TB, then "fdisk" should still do the trick.

I'm not able to test it right now, but "fdisk" support is also available for busybox as builtin command.

Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 02-20-2019, 06:04 AM:

Stupid me, I was so sold on fdisk being an MSDOS/windows shell command, I didn't even try... Let's see...

edit: yes, fdisk works...

- Carsten