Error "parted: invalid token: 1" When Using Parted To Format A Partition? Screenshot: !ss of term I'm trying to format an existing ext2 partition as ntfs (or any filesystem) using the mkfs command in Parted, but ...--prophetes.ai

Error "parted: invalid token: 1" When Using Parted To Format A Partition? Screenshot: !ss of term I'm trying to format an existing ext2 partition as ntfs (or any filesystem) using the mkfs command in Parted, but when I specify the partition to format I get: parted: invalid token: 1 "1" being the partition number I specified. I'm not sure what's wrong. The goal here is to find the correct command. I'm not interested in work-arounds using a different program. I'm just doing this to learn the ins/outs of Parted. I've already read the manuals, and a ton of blog posts. The command I used was: $ mkfs 1 ntfs Details: * Ubuntu 12.04 - Desktop X86-64 * Parted 2.3 * There is no valuable data on the machine. It's just a vm running Ubuntu with 2 virtual hard drives attached. Sda: Ubuntu Sdb: The drive for testing Parted

The error message is because it is asking a yes/no question, and "1" is not yes or no. Don't use parted's mkfs command: it is incomplete ( doesn't even support ntfs ), broken, and was removed from parted upstream several releases/years ago beacuse of this. Use `mkntfs` instead.