<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Bruce Pieterse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:octoquadza@gmail.com">octoquadza@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Well, based on the output of fdisk -l earlier I can see that you have a 250GB HDD that has a windows installation and a Linux installation (dual-boot), however the 320GB partition has a Windows NTFS partition:</blockquote>
<div><br>Yes I have a windows partition (because my sis uses the same pc) and that is the default boot option however, I go for Ubuntu LTS. 320GB partition was the external hard-disk.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc<br>
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br></div>
/dev/sda1 * 1 15258 122553318+ 7 HPFS/NTFS <-- Windows Filesystem<br>
/dev/sda2 15258 30402 121644033 5 Extended <-- Extended Partition Table<br>
/dev/sda5 15258 29781 116658176 83 Linux <-- Linux swap partition under extended partition table<br>
/dev/sda6 29781 30402 4984832 82 Linux swap / Solaris <-- root filesystem (/) for linux under extended partition table<div class="im"><br>
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Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0xa4b57300<br>
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br></div>
/dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 7 HPFS/NTFS <-- Windows Filesystem<br></blockquote><div><br>/dev/sdb1 it is also showing a windows partition? But it is an external hard disk and they do also act like Windows partition? To make them like Linux it should be formatted with ext3/4, I guess it is like that.....?<br>
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I was going to suggest that maybe you can copy the contents of the device over to your home directory if there is sufficient space, and reformat it as NTFS again and copy the data back to the drive.<br></blockquote><div>
<br>I would definitely do this one what you have suggested but I would need a holiday to do this all and before that I would be taking back-up of all the songs, movies and document and then I could format that external hard disk.<br>
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If you never go into windows then it should be ok to reformat the drive to ext3/4. However what I recommended earlier might be beneficial if you do occasionally use windows and need to access files from your linux installation to work on. You can allocate a small percentage, perhaps 20-50GB's depending on your needs and you have to use a windows supported filesystem(FAT16/FAT32/NTFS) when creating partitions.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>You are saying to format that external hard-disk? If in case it is formated with ext3/4, it could no more be used with Windows in any time and on any machine which has windows...? 20-50GB allocation out of a total 320 GB (of the external usb hard disk) could be done? So that this hard disk could be used in both - linux and windows? <br>
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The best program to use is disk-utility or if you want a more advanced application you can try gparted (sudo apt-get install gparted from the </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
terminal).<br></blockquote><div><br>Would have to read about it before applying. Yes it should be a great utility ubuntu is providing. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I just remembered that I also had this problem when I first started out with Linux. The best way is to definitely reformat to a linux supported filesystem to avoid data corruption and journalling errors.<br></blockquote>
<div><br>But then would it be used in Windows also? (since other members would occasionally use the same external hard disk in windows too).<br></div></div><br>Thx.<br><br>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one stops. The other says, "What's<br>
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