By viewing my Disk&File Systems in Hardy, can anyone see why one HDD is partially crippled?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
>For over a year, the HDD that my current OS is on, has had its larger
>partition unusable.  My system is Hardy KDE3.5.10.
>The HDD is an 80gb Maxtor.  20gb was partitioned with ext3 and made
>primary.  My current version of Hardy in on that partition.  The balance
>is 58gb according to Dolphin, and is unusable and empty.  When I click
>on the vacant HDD, it says 'Permissin Denied'.  I would like to use the
>empty space.  Additionally, I have a vacant area, 14gb, for another OS
>that is unusable on a 200gb Maxtor HDD.  I wanted to put Intrepid on it
>to get some experience.  The balance of the drive is used for storage in
>two other partitions, one 68gb, the other 119gb.  I did not attach the
>screen print, because I am pretty sure it exceeds the size limit of the
>'List', however, I can send it to your email address for viewing.  If
>you have a solution for my problem, I will figure a way to describe the
>resolution of the problem and post that on the List, so others may learn
>from it.  TIA.
>
>Steven

I would start this little procedure by running 'badblocks' on both oif those 
drives to see if they are usable.  I have a 160 and a 200, both maxtors here, 
and I don't think badblocks would be happy with either.

Then if the data on them isn't precious, I'd just use fdisk to repartition 
them as you see fit.


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