[conspire] GNU parted *won't* create an ext3 file system - argh!

[Mark Weisler]

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Darlene Wallach wrote:
> I finally realized that when I thought I had successfully created an
> ext3 file system on partition 1 - no file system had been created -
> argh! Looks like I can't use GNU parted for my Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T
> drive.
> 
> cfdisk doesn't support GPT
> 
> I guess I'm going back to gparted - argh! I would rather use a cli.
> 
> Thank you for all the help Rick, maybe next time I'll get it figured out.
> 
> Darlene Wallach
If you choose to use gparted you can partition and assign a filesystem
all using just gparted as described here...
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm

If you use GNU parted and complete the partitioning then you will need
to assign a filesystem as another step using, for example, mkfs.ext3, as
 Rick describes.

For Linux work I recommend that you get comfortable partitioning and
using the basic filesystems like ext3 before moving to the GUID
Partition Table (GPT) arena. GUID is used now on the Macintosh but that
is a different kettle of fish.
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Mark Weisler
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