How to format in porteus.

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Kozmopol
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How to format in porteus.

Post#1 by Kozmopol » 21 Jun 2015, 10:38

So my porteus is running from ram, and now i want to format my usb to ext filesystem, and then reinstall porteus on it. How do i format the usb?

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Re: How to format in porteus.

Post#2 by Seva » 21 Jun 2015, 11:26

program called gparted do formatting, it is installed by default in xfce, cant find it in kde
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Re: How to format in porteus.

Post#3 by Seva » 21 Jun 2015, 11:32

kde partition manager can do formatting in kde, its installed by default
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Re: How to format in porteus.

Post#4 by beny » 21 Jun 2015, 11:41

hi or you have to check the name of device via fdisk -l ,in console after this: mkfs.ext4 name of device,you can do all you want via console so make the filesystem too

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