How do I format a caddy ext3

General Computing *nix and other operating systems
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I’ve got an external 320GB caddy which I want to use to extend the storage on my PVR (Freesat) and need to format it ext3. Don’t need to access it or do anything else with it once formatted - just plug it into the PVR (and hope) :wink:

Are there any free utilities suitable for a muppet that I can use to do this from a windows machine.

Ta

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GPARTED or one of it’s offshoots might do the trick - never used it myself.
or one of the utilities on Ultimate boot CD

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If that wont work you could always boot the PC from one of the live distributions on CD/USB and use its tools to do the job.

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There is thread dealing with the problem on AV forums

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That’s great. Thanks all - Sorted :slight_smile: