I have just got a new external harddisk. I used it strait in window I copy some files on it. without formating it. Now when I use ubuntu it said that it is total only 10Giga, but the external harddisk is 1000 Giga. How come ? is htis because it has to be formated before ubuntu se the total size ?
View 2 RepliesI use dual booting, vista ubuntu 9.10. I have just bought a new 1T external harddisk i have used it on windows to backup some files. Now I want to backup some documents in ubuntu, but the harddisk is not visible, I can't see it, ok I think the term in Linux is that it is not mounted. Is there something else one should do ?
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf959a599
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I tough that my computer could not mount external harddisk.Here is my mail about that subject.I use dual booting, vista ubuntu 9.10.I have just bought a new 1T external harddisk i have used it on windows to backup some files.Now I want to backup some documents in ubuntu, but the harddisk is not visible, I can't see it, ok I think the term in Linux is that it is not mounted..Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDisk identifier: 0xf959a599
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1176 9437184 27 Unknown
/dev/sda2 * 1176 52188 409761792 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 52188 77826 205930496 7 HPFS/NTFS
Can I used an external harddisk to install program like Netbeans ? eclipse ? or a database?
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I tried JFS and EXT4.
My kernel is code...
Visibly the 2 tb are not supported by Ubuntu. cfdisk does not like my harddisk not fdisk. I am bit stuck. I havent X11
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've installed fedora 9 in my PC.Now i want to install windows in it but my harddisk is not getting formated. I tried it with windows xp cd. Can any one suggest me how to uninstall fedora. I would like to make it as a dual boot.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have tried mkfs.jfs but well not working.... The hardisk is bit getting old ...
I have tried gparted but it doesnt do that.
I have suse in my PC. I want to format my harddisk completely and install suse again.How can I do this. I have the linux OS CD with me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've right now installed Fedora 12 in my laptop, and when I try to acces my external USB Woxter HardDisk I get this error:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 12: Failed to read last sector (1953525103): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
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We are planning to work on CentOS 5.5 running from LiveCD (CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2) on a Windows partitioned machine.
As part of our work, i need some files and installers (Linux compatible) from an External Harddisk.
When i tried to mount the harddisk, found ntfs module is missing.
Could please help to continue with LiveCD.
i was installed Redhat linux in windows using sunVM, linux is not mounted the external USB hard disk, it is recognizing CD,DVD and pendrive but not external Harddisk,
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Western Digital My Book World Edition external harddisk with blue rings. I filled it up and now want to delete the data and start over. I'm set in my ways and have been accustom to reformatting harddisks periodically (sector maintainance, etc.) It's worked for me as I've luckily have not had a disk crash in 25 years.My webapp is not helping me with the reformat and neither is Western Digital tech support. I've heard that it was factory formatted with something called Linux ext3. Does this make sense? Has anyone had any experience with reformatting external harddisks being used as a NAS (home use).
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow can I clone my installed ubuntu to a new harddisk? with 32bit ubuntu I have used:tar cvpzf -> create a tar file on my external nas system. after that I have done a restore tar xvpfz - worked with 32 bit.
Alternative I have mounted both disks and via another linux partition I have used:
cp -rvbdR /source/* /target
both methodes worked with ubuntu 32 bit. With 64 bit ubuntu I can NOT get it to work. error message after booting the clone: /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthoriy ..
I can see that /source/var/lib/gdm has different rights as /target - will be part of the problem.
This did not happen with the 32 bit ubuntu - but why ?
i know there's tools like gparted, but if i have an external HD, how do i format it?
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Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x086f8f0b
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I would like to format my new external hard drive (1.5TB) so it can be accessed on both Linux (Ubuntu) and OSX. Is that possible without using FAT system? If yes, what file system should I use?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new 320gb laptop hard drive and mounted it into an external enclosure. The hard drive has never been formatted. I plugged it into my computer running Ubuntu 10.10 and nothing happens. I expected something toopup and say the drive has not been formatted and give me formatting choices. I looked in Places>Computer and it's not there. I even looked in Gparted and it does not show it. So how on earth do I format a new external hard drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI wanted to get started with Ubuntu so I partitioned an external hard drive with Ubuntu 11.04 onto it. After finding out my computer couldn't but up from a external hard drive I wanted to format my drive. When I plugged it into my computer, Windows would not recognize it. I then dual booted Ubuntu 11.04 onto my laptop and attached my drive. Ubuntu found it a recognized it as 3 separate disks. I then opened up disk utility and told it to format the drive. After clicking a couple "OKs" I got an error message: An error occured while performing an operation on "500 GB Hard Disk" (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex): The device is busy I clicked details and got:One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb. I was wondering what I could do since it isn't doing anything in the first place. I just want to format the whole thing.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do you format an external harddrive to ext4 or ntfs?
View 5 Replies View Relatedand am running Ubuntu 9.04 version. My wife's USB flashdisk has picked up viruses from computers running Windows in her office. My quick solution is to format it (and external hard disks as well) in my machine.
View 7 Replies View Relatedcan't find an answer for this here or elsewhere. I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop with no problems...until now. I bought a Seagate portable drive for backup/extra storage purposes. When I plug in the drive and start up Disk Utility, it recognizes the Drive and whatnot, but when I click "Format Drive" I end up (after clicking through the warnings) with an error message stating:Error Formatting DriveAn error occurred while performing an operation on "640 GB Hard Disk" (Seagate Portable):The device is busyI clicked for details, which resulted in:One or more partitions are busy on /dev/sdb(Not that detailed, if you ask me.)I then entered the command line (a scary place for someone who came over from OSX) Code:sudo lshw -C diskgave me this info about the hard drive I'm trying to format:
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*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
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I have just installed ubuntu 10.10. I had about 270Gib available free to install ubuntu 10.10 on, but after the installation I can see only 141Gib ? how can I get the rest of the free harddisk ?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI would like to install ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS in my desktop-pc. It boots, I select time zone and keyboard layout, but then it could not see my hard disk, so i cant go further.
But i can see the disk in console while typing:
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# sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
and I can also make changes in disk such as deleting all partions etc.
I put a larger drive in my netbook and stuck the old in an external USB enclosure so I could use it for backups. It had three partitions on it, ntfs and linux so I deleted all the partitions and created one big linux partition. Every time I write and exit fdisk the removable disk utility in KDE pops up and says ntfs drive. If I ignore it and try to formatit wants to use ntfs, if I fsck.ext3 it saysThe superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2filesystem. If the deviceis valid and it really contains an ext2filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblockis corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:e2fsck -b 8193 <device>2fsck -b 8193 doesn't work either.It seems like its caching something, I can print the partition table and see the one linux partition I created.
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Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
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I'm going to replace the primary hdd of my box with another one of a different manufacturer, but of the same size (long story, never mind)
My current plan so I won't have to reinstall my system is booting from a Ubuntu CD (or USB stick, whatever) and doing
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dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
(If sdb happens to be a few megabytes smaller it doesn't matter, the last partition is not important)
Now my questions:
1. Is this going to work? Is it a bad idea?
2. Should I use any parameters for dd, for performance? Like setting bs (or something) to a bit smaller than the both HDD's (equal) cache size?
If that matters, the hdd contains both NTFS, ext3/4 and reiserfs partitions. I use grub to boot Ubuntu, WinXP and Win7.
i have external hard drive which will be used for windows and i have to format it. i tried with disk utility program but it tells me all the time device is busy. in terminal its too complicated for me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedSanta brought me an early Christmas present: a new External HD - Verbatim CLÖN - 250GBPlug it in and it works great. Problem is this: I do not use Windows at all just Debian Squeeze and this thing is formatted FAT32 - an ancient format.I would prefer EXT3 or maybe NTFS to be compatible with Windows "IF" there is a need (cousins etc).However as soon as I format it to NTFS or Ext3 it becomes "root" only.This is my HD, how can I format it and keep permissions for myself?
A friend suggested changing /etc/fuse.conf
# Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users.
# The default is 1000.
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I have a Seagate external hard drive and I want to use it to back up my home server since it runs Ubuntu 6.10 and the upgrade to 10.10. My problem is that I am not able to format the drive to use it. I can not change the permissons or if I try to format I have all sorts of trouble. I have tried doing it on the home server running 6.10 and another pc running 10.10 and had no luck. Is there a better way? I have even tried chmod and chown with no luck.
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