Please help me mount my data HD

[Karl Larsen]

Edgar Sarino wrote:
> To ubuntu-users,
>
> Greetings.  I am new to ubuntu, but I thought that I would give it a try.
>
> I have a Dell Precision with two SCSI HDs - a 36 GB HD (onto which I installed ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition) and a data 137 GB HD, which I left alone.  I thought that the installer would automatically reformat both drives - instead, it left the 137 GB HD alone, and when I try to access it or view it, I get an error message which states that the drive has the NTFS file system and is therefore umountable.
>
> Question: How do I reformat the drive, and/or make the drive mountable?
>
> Thanks for your attention to this matter.
>
>
> - Edgar Sarino
>
>
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>   
    Well you need to make a partition on the 137 GB drive. If it was me 
I would make several partitions and make partition 4 a Extended 
partition. So to start make a partition large enough for your storage 
needs.

    You make the partitions with "fdisk" which you have on your Ubuntu. 
It works like this:

    $ sudo fdisk -l

will list all the hard drives. Then use fdisk /dev/sdb if that is right, 
and then make your partitions and make them Linux.

    Now you need to put a filesystem on the partition and that is done 
like this:

$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 if it is the first partition on the second 
hard drive. This will happen and then you can mount it to your Ubuntu to 
use it.

Karl
 

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