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I'm just trying to make sense of your example since i'm not familiar with the command line tools for formatting. It looks like the command is setting the file system second partition. I looked online and it looks like mkfs.ext2 doesn't do any of the partitioning, so wouldn't you need to first set up the partitions with another command? --[[User:Cheese|Cheese]] 06:40, 20 July 2010 (MEST)
 
I'm just trying to make sense of your example since i'm not familiar with the command line tools for formatting. It looks like the command is setting the file system second partition. I looked online and it looks like mkfs.ext2 doesn't do any of the partitioning, so wouldn't you need to first set up the partitions with another command? --[[User:Cheese|Cheese]] 06:40, 20 July 2010 (MEST)
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:Yes, I think you are correct. This assumes your SD card is already partitioned. I only took an existing example and moved it...--[[User:Tsh|Tsh]] 12:21, 20 July 2010 (MEST)

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command line ext2 formatting

I'm just trying to make sense of your example since i'm not familiar with the command line tools for formatting. It looks like the command is setting the file system second partition. I looked online and it looks like mkfs.ext2 doesn't do any of the partitioning, so wouldn't you need to first set up the partitions with another command? --Cheese 06:40, 20 July 2010 (MEST)

Yes, I think you are correct. This assumes your SD card is already partitioned. I only took an existing example and moved it...--Tsh 12:21, 20 July 2010 (MEST)