Formatting a Firewire HDD

[Gordonbp]

Not sure whether this is the right forum, but here goes:
I have a 80 GB Firewire HDD, formatted in two partitions, 32GB Fat32 and 33 GB fat 32. I want to erase both partitions and format the whole 80 GB as ext2 or 3. Can I find how to do that in FC4? NO! Can someone please tell me how I do this? (It's easy in Windows, but I don't have windows anymore!)

[MaegRil]

You'll have to use the command line - bring up a terminal window.
What you need is fdisk.

This is what I would do on my computer for an IDE drive to edit my partition table.
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hde

So, you'll need to substitute the "/dev/hde" for whatever device your firewire disk is.

Once you've set the partition with fdisk you'll need to make a file system on it, with mkfs

This line (in my case) would create a ext3 filesystem on the first partition of my IDE drive.
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hde1

I haven't any experience with firewire drives, but I think that should help you. :)