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asdf:
ext2 is the "standard". ext3 is a newer version, it's a journalling file system, meaning that if your computer crashes you won't need to fsck it - it just recovers the journal. It is backwards compatible - you should go for ext3.

I use reiser, IMHO its better..

Master of Reality:
well, according to windows, there is not enough memory to run defrag, I have 80MB RAM i went into msconfig turned off most things that run at startup (e.g. Zone Alarm). Turned off EVERYTHING,
so windows in itself takes up too much memory to run defrag, but under system properties>performance it says i have something like 98% resources free.

Calum:
if i were you, i'd use a utility called PQMAGICT.EXE
i found it on my old partition magic 4.01 CD, and it runs in DOS.
it is non destructive and very easy and fast to use.
the problem for you is getting it.
when you run it (i run dos from a floppy, and pqmagict.exe from the cd) it doesn't ask for any passwords or security keys or anything. maybe this is because i already have partmagic installed on the hard drive, but i think not since, as i say i am running both the OS and the program from external drives.
Maybe you could do a search using WinMX or a similar file sharing program just for the DOS program 'PQMAGICT.EXE' but i think mostly you will just find bundled warez of 'cracked' copies of partition magic.
you might get some kind soul to email it to you but as i said, i'm not sure of the legalities implied therein...
sorry, not too conclusive, but it's all i've got, basically, if you can get PQMAGICT.EXE, and can run DOS, do it, it works really well.

Master of Reality:
how do i completely format a parition in Linux?

iancom:
[assuming IDE disks!]

mke2fs /dev/hd??  : for ext2
mke2fs -j /dev/hd?? : for ext3

if you use -j you'll need to mount it with "-t ext3" to use the journalling, but you can still mount it as ext2 at any time if you need to.

If -j isn't working, check it's compiled into your kernel. I think support for ext3 was compiled in as default from RedHat 7.2 on. Don't know about Mandrake, but I'm fairly sure it's in 8.2.

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