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rbalaa
August 2nd, 2010, 07:58 PM
I would like to format my current NTFS drive to EXT4. I've searched and found there are two commands to do this, mkfs or mke2fs.

What are the proper steps to do format an NTFS to EXT4 ?

If you recommend EXT3 over 4, please advise.

lechien73
August 2nd, 2010, 08:14 PM
You could just use GParted to format the drive. Make sure the drive is not mounted, and then go to System > Administration > GParted. You can format the partition to ext4 through there. Make sure you've backed up any data you want to keep, obviously ;)

This thread on the Ubuntu forums gives some of the differences between ext4 and ext3: http://uri.tl/r

Irony
August 2nd, 2010, 08:15 PM
System > Admin > Disk Utility

rbalaa
August 2nd, 2010, 08:26 PM
Forgot to mention I'm using Ubuntu Server. So I only have command line access.

oldos2er
August 3rd, 2010, 12:26 AM
parted is the CLI equivalent of gparted.