Flying gParted

[The Wassermans]

Very helpful stuff.  Thank you.  I will get to work using your advice.

Interesting though.  The PC I am using was given to me by a friend.  He 
retained his HDD - presumably a SATA drive.  I however, installed my 
drive which is an IDE.  It all works okay, but ii do get an error 
message on boot up about missing SATA drives but it then goes on and 
behaves normally - whatever that is?  I guess I should get a SATA 
drive?  Or is this just a configuration issue?

Dave

Christopher Lees wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 12:00 +0000, The Wassermans wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:06:54 +1100
>> From: The Wassermans <dwass at optusnet.com.au>
>> Subject: Flying gParted
>> To: "ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> Trying to fly gParted without success.
>>
>> Please:
>> 1.    Interpret  the partition information in the attached file.
>>
>> 2.    Do I already have a free partition that I can adapt to pool data 
>> files created and accessible to Ubuntu and Windows, as the case may be.  
>> What steps from here to achieve that?
>>
>> 3   Is there a better product to use for partitioning?
>>
>> Dave W
>>     
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> The information attached shows a SATA hard drive partitioned into two
> Linux ext3 partitions, one Windows NTFS partition, and seemingly two
> swap partitions.
>
> Ubuntu can read and write NTFS partitions, so you could just use your
> big NTFS partition for that. It is already accessible to you
> under /media/disk-2. The read/write speeds won't be too impressive, but
> it will work safely.
>
> One of your ext3 partitions is already mounted at /media/disk-1. I
> imagine this is the partition that you really want to use as a dedicated
> Windows-Linux data pool. If so, (I haven't used Gparted in ages)
> right-click /dev/sda2 and you'll see some kind of option to change the
> partition to "Fat32". This is the most common filesystem format to use
> to transfer data between Windows and any other operating system. The
> speeds will be good, but remember that Fat32 has a filesize limit of 4
> gigabytes! This operation will destroy all data on /dev/sda2 (the drive
> that is mounted at /media/disk-1) so copy all information off that drive
> first onto a different partition or a DVD, before changing the
> filesystem format.
>
> The final option is to install an Ext2 / Ext3 filesystem driver for
> Windows so you can access the /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda4 (root) filesystem
> from within Windows. Due to the fact that Linux supports lots of special
> characters in filenames and Windows doesn't, you'll find that some files
> on your Ubuntu partition cannot be accessed on Windows. There are also
> security implications - an attacker who has compromised the Windows side
> of your computer can easily install a rootkit or something into the
> mounted Ubuntu partition.
>
> Frankly, your best option is to access the NTFS partition from within
> Ubuntu. Everything should already be set up for that; if you can't get
> write access you will need to change the permissions of /media/disk-2 so
> that you have read/write access.
>
>
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