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Old 11-17-2006, 01:41 PM
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Try something as follows:

Code:
echo ""
echo -n "formatting /dev/$dev ....mkfs.ext3 /dev/$dev"
mkfs.ext3 -Fq /dev/$dev > /dev/null
mount /dev/$dev /mnt/$dev  > /dev/null
[ "$?" == "0" ] &&  echo -n " ... DONE!" || echo -n " ...  Failed!"
echo ""
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