Hi, there's an fdisk to establish partitions and yes there is some equivilent of the dos format command. I _believe_ it's of the form mkextfs for ext2 but won't swear to it! Cecil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20031114/2dc2f571/attachment.html>