disk utility

[garskoci]

Hello!

Does anyone know if there is a disk utility for Linux that is similar to Sun's format utility? I searched around and didn't come up with anything.

Thanks.

[serz]

mk.msdos
mk.ext2
mk.ext3
mk.reiserfs

Those are one of the commands to format a partition and give it a filesystem. That's because in Linux there are a few different filesystems you can use.

[garskoci]

Thanks. Those I know. I'm looking for something more extensive like Sun's format utility. I could never find anything though. Thanks again for responding.

[mrBen]

Originally posted by garskoci
Thanks. Those I know. I'm looking for something more extensive like Sun's format utility. I could never find anything though. Thanks again for responding.

Having never used Sun's utility, it would be nice to know exactly what features it has that you want.

[garskoci]

There are quite a bit. To name a few. Low level format, surface analsys, set up partitions, repair defective sectors or blocks. It's a very nice utility.

[mrBen]

Originally posted by garskoci
There are quite a bit. To name a few. Low level format,

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

surface analsys,

fsck

set up partitions,

fdisk, cfdisk, parted


repair defective sectors or blocks.

fsck

It's a very nice utility.

You might like to look at http://www.sysresccd.org/ too

[garskoci]

Thanks. I understand these Linux commands/utilities. I was just wondering if there was anything like Sun's format. I guess that you would have to be a somewhat familiar with the utility to see where I'm coming from. It would be great to see ported.