How to format attached device? (convert it to ext4)

WD Legacy Products My Book Live Duo
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Hi,
I have a My Book World II attached to a My Book Live Duo. It’s formatted as NTFS and i would like to convert it (or delete/recreate if it’s cleaner) to the same ext4 format that the MBLD uses.

Is there a way to achieve this via ssh and without removing the MBWII and attaching it to a computer?

I want to do this in order to avoid further fragmentation of the attached device.

Thanks!

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Hello, unfortunately this option is not available from the My Book Live dashboard. 

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Timmy,

Isn’t the My Book World a Network Drive?

If it is not, and is a USB drive, you should be able to format it through SSH. Although, unless you are moving files a lot on the drive there should be no cause for fragmentation.

Here is a site that talks about commands to format through Debian.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disk-format/

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Thanks Chaos, actually I didn’t even remembered my own drive :stuck_out_tongue: It’s a Studio Edition II, the one with ESATA port.

I did something like that; booted up Ubuntu and GParted it to ext4. I was asking about doing it from SSH because I didn’t want to unplug or remove any cables, since they are (were :() perfectly placed :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks!

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I see… makes sense.

Glad you got it the way you want it, although I know what you mean about the cables :slight_smile: