[vox-tech] Remove a filesystem

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Jay,

I think that if you delete the partition in question, and then recreate 
it.  That should do the trick.  Something  like:

fdisk /dev/hdc
or
cfdisk /dev/hdc

Mark

me@heyjay.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there a command to remove a filesystem?
>
>If I partition a disk, build a filesystem (mke2fs), is there anything like
>rme2fs?  I'm playing with software raid and after I've built my raid device,
>built a filesystem on it, mounted it, I'd like to delete the filesystem, so
>that the next time I do a:
>
>mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level raid1 --raid-disks 2 missing /dev/hdc1
>
>It doesn't give me a message like:
>mdadm: /dev/hdc2 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
>    size=40001728K  mtime=Sun May  2 22:32:37 2004
>mdadm: /dev/hdc2 appears to be part of a raid array:
>    level=1 devices=2 ctime=Sun May  2 22:28:46 2004
>Continue creating array? y
>
>
>Thanks
>Jay
>
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