david bolt bgbricpzdavjamorg thu 14 feb 2008 aaron kulkis wrote dont specifically support itthey dont sanity checking make sure youre attempting use measly 1 2 blocks reserved partition table part filesystem apart fact 1 2 blocks complete cylinder number heads x sectors per track usually 255 x 63 check checking name specifically theres way application distinguish difference entire disk partition theyre block devices precisely use full device need use f mkfsxfs mkreiserfs mke2fs display warning requires explicitly say yes formatting fact ive even made ext23 reiserfs filesystems within regular file tmp useful trick making floppy disks years ago also way creating swap file theres free space create new swap partition already existing one isnt big enough regards david bolt team acorn httpwwwdistributednet ogrp2 100mnodes rc572 15mkeys suse 101 32bit opensuse 102 32bit opensuse 103 32bit opensuse 110a1 suse 101 64bit opensuse 102 64bit opensuse 103 64bit risc os 36 tos 402 opensuse 103 ppc risc os 311 wed 06 aug 2008 050539 0000 opensuse use entire disk partition