How to remove a damaged file

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 23 15:17:40 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:46, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/04/23 15:32 (GMT+0100) Anne Wilson apparently typed:
> > fsck said it had corrected errors, but it didn't help.  Strangely, here
> > isn't a man page for format.
>
> Format is a WinDOS filesystem creation application/utility. On Unix/Linux,
> you create filesystems with mkfs and its variants mkfs.ext3 & others.

Right.  The language used during installs 'Format partition?' confused me.

Anne




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