Ubuntu :: Cd To External Drive To Resize Photos

Mar 28, 2011

I have an external drive with lots of photos on. I want to resize them and someone suggested using Code: for f in *.jpg; do convert "$f" -resize 640x480 -strip -quality 86 "$f"; done Then I realised I don't know how to cd to an external drive. The drive shows up as "Iomega HDD" in Nautilus. I tried every variation I could think of including creating a mount point on my home partition.

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General :: Resize Partition On External Drive

Mar 21, 2009

Computer hardware is not my bag. I accidentally installed ubuntu on external F drive, thinking it was C drive, unaware that ubuntu installs on drive with most available space. Installation involved partitioning the drive in about half. So, before I install it on C drive, I want to restore my F drive. I deleted partition using XP Disk Management tool and tried to use gParted on Parted Magic live boot cd to resize remaining partition that contains my data. But it doesn't seem able to expand the good partition to reclaim the 'unallocated' space. How do I accomplish this? Must I backup and reformat?

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Software :: Method To Batch Resize Photos With Options

Feb 6, 2010

I've been using GNU/Linux for many years, and am finally taking steps to reduce Windows to a gaming platform only. One important category is photography. I've used the GIMP a lot and have been quietly browsing several photo apps for various tasks; they've really progressed in recent years. There is almost too much choice! On Windows I used XnView as my image viewer and for simple manipulations, but for batch JPG resizing I found Irfanview hard to beat. It has an intuitive interface for options, of which the following have become musts:

-Resize longest side, maintaining aspect ratio
-Specify the exact number of pixels
-Select a useful algorithm (usually cubic)
-Set JPG compression
-Process subdirectories recursively
-Write processed files to a new location, preserving subdirectory structure
-Confirm error-free operation or list errors
- A nice-to-have is visual feedback of progress during processing.

Up till now, the main purpose of this has been to downsize the ~3MB JPG images my digital camera makes for fast viewing-viewing images 640 pixels max side length instead of 3504 pixels, I can browse more efficiently, and watch my life in fast-forward, so to speak. So now I am moving everything to be done on Debian, and want to downsize my 80-GB collection to an intermediate resolution for my wife to work with. I'd like her to use a photo management app instead of doing everything by hand.

I could of course use Irfanview for the job and then copy everything to a *nix partition, but that's sort of not the point. I know the heavily promoted Imagemagick can do batch conversion efficiently and is used as a backend for a lot of apps, but I'm not sure whether it can preserve subdirectory structure; this is a must because of over 200 subdirectories. The mogrify command changes the original image, and it seems inefficient to copy 80 GB only to downsize it.

I'm sure that read-resize-write can be done preserving directory structure by using a script, and I'd be willing to do that in the future, but for now I lack experience and am not willing to use a script I don't understand. Otherwise, there seem to be few free apps that do batch resizing with the features above. I looked into Phatch, but it doesn't seem to let me set the exact resolution I want. I don't want to use Picasa until Google makes it free. Gwenview does batch resize, but doesn't seem to give all the options, unless I missed something.

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May 3, 2011

I want to move 1.2GB of photos onto a 2GB thumb drive, calling up Properties, it says the size on disk is 9.7GB. What is going on? I don't recall discrepencies this huge in previous OS's. What is taking up 7 times more space than my actual files?

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Apr 20, 2010

I have an external hard-disk with two partitions, a fat32 and an ext3.I open gparted to resize the partitions but the only allowed operation is to check for information (see screenshot).

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Jul 28, 2010

I have recently installed Puppy Linux because my Windows OS crashed and I could not find the license number and did not want to pay $180 for a new one.So far This OS looks good but quite different to Windows so I am having difficulty finding how to retrieve my photos and documents from the computer.
I have been able to find the relevant files but I can't see how to copy or print them.
I would like to put them onto CD and transfer them to my laptop which is running Windows 7.

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Jan 14, 2009

I have 2 ubuntu's: 1 on my ineternal hard drive, 1 on my external

When I startup without my ext drive =>GRUB error 21.

And when I plug it in I can choose: the standard ubuntu kernel is the one on my external, and the original one is listed under other...

I'd like to be able to startup without external hard drive and make the ubuntu on my internal drve the standard.

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Jun 6, 2011

This is the equivilent of a DJ going into the"dusty records bin"to play an old song.I've got a hard drive that's left over from a Mandriva Spring 2008 computer and I need to copy the photos off it to a DVD and move them to a computer running Ubuntu.I can't seem to get the Ubuntu computer to access what's on the Mandriva drive, so I've loaded Mandriva Spring 2008 on another computer.

I've accessed the photos I need easily enough, but can't copy them to a storage medium so I can move them to the other computer. I've tried two USB devices, an external DVD drive and a flash drive and can't just copy (or drag 'n drop) the files to the other devices.This evening I may try a portable hard drive, again with a USB connection, and see if that works.

If there's a fool-proof way to do this by using a terminal, I'll try that. I haven't been able to devote enough time to Linux to familiarize myself with terminal commands. Or, if there's a program that will run under Mandriva Spring 2008 that will let me accomplish the transfer, I'll try that as well.

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Sep 24, 2010

I have installed Ubuntu 10.04LTS on my entire hard drive of my laptop. It's been smooth ride, of course. I want to resize my drive and install windows 7 on the new partition. How do I do that? I have installed Gparted. I have ubuntu installation disk. I want Ubuntu to be the default OS and I want to log on to wndows 7 when I want to from the boot menu. How do I do that?

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Aug 2, 2010

I need to make my root partition bigger to add more free space. Is there a Linux version that will fit on a small usb flash drive that has the tools I need? I plan to boot a Linux distro from a flash drive in order to resize the partition.

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Oct 28, 2010

When I load the disk I can view my backup drive properly but when I try to view my working drive it shows it as being empty. I also noticed that I had a 1 mg unallocated partition at the beginning followed by my ubuntu partition.

I then ran gparted in terminal and it did show the partition as having my system on it but I am not able to perform any tasks. No moving or resizing.

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Jun 19, 2011

I would like to install Linux Ubuntu 11.04 on an external hard drive - its partitioned and ready for Linux.I've downloaded and burnt the .iso file to a DVD so its all good so far...First of all... is this possible without messing up my macbook? I don't particularly want to break into my macbook to disconnect the hard drive (I read on a tutorial for a previous version of Ubuntu that I'd have to do that... - does it still apply to 11.04?) - as it voids the warranty (I checked ).The reason I ask this is because I had a friend who partitioned their internal hard drive and installed Ubuntu on it. But after installation was complete they couldn't boot up Windows 7 or Ubuntu... and it resulted in them having to clean install Windows 7... - I don't want to end up in that situation

Second... If it is possible to install it without messing up my macbook... - Do I just follow the install instructions but just make sure that where possible I make sure that everything is installed on my external hard drive?...I really need someone to put my mind at rest that everything will run smoothly and that I'll be able to run Mac OS X as usual but also that I'll be able to boot from my external hard drive to run Ubuntu.

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May 30, 2011

I have 350GB external Western Digital USB hard Drive.When I try to remove it from the system by executing Safely Remove Drive menu the fedora 15 system gets stuck.The processor starts giving a hum sound and it goes on even if it is left for half an hour in the stuck state.The Mouse is not working and everything is halted.

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Mar 30, 2011

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Mar 8, 2011

Is Ubuntu like windows and can you download Ubuntu to a flash drive or external hard drive and if so what kind?

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Ubuntu :: Seeing Folders - Plug In The External Drive And Get Error "format The Drive"

May 30, 2010

I'm not sure what to do, but I just rescued photos and documents using ubuntu live cd, gddrescue and photorec. The data carving went fine and I was able to move all of my recovered jpg's into a recovery/jpg folder, as well as my word doc's into a recover/doc folder. I also have recovery/video and recovery/audio. Now here's my problem...

I used the right-click "safely remove drive" from the ubuntu interface and then unplugged my external drive. I then tried to view the recovered photos, etc on my windows 7 desktop, but when I plug in the external drive I get an error and a prompt to "format the drive" so that windows can use it.

I plugged the external drive back into my failed laptop and with the ubuntu live cd can see the drive, but none of the folders display. I can cd "change directories" to all of the folders using a terminal, but still can't see them outside of the terminal. That is, with the ubuntu interface. I'm just trying to finish up recoverying these photos, which I thought I had done.

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Jan 25, 2010

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Apr 15, 2011

I need to re-format an external drive. All the instructions I have found start with figuring out where the drive is mounted (sda, hda, etc.). However, as soon as my RH Linux machine sees the drive's format (ntfs) it decides it won't even mount it in the first place. Gives me an error message. Also, the drive doesn't show up at all via "df -k". how to convince RHL to be a little more accepting?

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May 20, 2010

i have Ubuntu10.04 on a dell desktop and 9.10 on a dell mini10 net-book installed from flash drive both work flawlessly, And have been for month but now i finally buy a external drive case with its own power supply slip a working drive from the desktop into it plug it in and nothing it doesn't show up on the desktop or under computer on either the desktop or the net-book.

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Aug 22, 2010

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Jun 3, 2011

I have a laptop with only 30GB storage and I want to install Lubuntu in virtual box but Lubuntu needs 5GB of storage space which i dont have. Could i use an external 160GB hard drive to act as the hard drive for the virtual machine without affecting the files that are already on the external hard drive

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Jan 10, 2010

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Mar 10, 2010

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Apr 6, 2010

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,

missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I get this when I try to mount this drive. I was working just fine and then when I tried to mount again to pull some data off It gave me an error. It is an internal hard sata hard drive hook up via usb with a usb to sata converter. Is there some kind of disk check i can do to find errors. There is data on there I would like to keep

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May 4, 2010

Ubuntu 10.4 x86
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After rebooting the computer the USB external HDD I use for backup appears and is accessible at /media/OneTouch 4

A few minutes later I check and it's unmounted itself (apparently) because it's no longer there.

Restart the computer and it appears for a while once again, then disappears.

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Jun 15, 2010

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Jul 2, 2010

I come here as a technical PC user and fan of the Ubuntu forums ^^..I am the current owner of a Western Digital Portable HDD - Blue - 320 GB (Advertised).Recently, I have discovered I had bad sectors (Which were remapped I guess according to Ubuntu's Disk Utility-message that popped up in the upper right)... How is something I don't know because I have already had it replaced due to an internal busted USB port, and have taken really good care of it.Well, I right-clicked in My Computer on the drive (Windows XP) and ran Windows Error Checking on it. It took over a day and finally came up with a failure message. During the test, the drive made funky (yes, funky) noises and now is inaccessible. (It will NOT spin up, or show up as a drive in XP ANYWHERE (Including Device Manager) [but it does go into sleep mode o.0])

I do not have my files backed up, and this is so because this IS my backup =. (Or.. 'Temporary File Storage' for the critics out there.)I have access to WinXP, Vista, Ubuntu, Mac OSX, and Win7, and the bottom line is that I don't know what to do.. I bought it at Walmart (about $100) and also a replacement plan.. but the thing is, I'm not sure if it is dead, and whether or not I can somehow recover my files without disassembly..I'm thinking that maybe the Sata / USB internal interface is dead, but wouldn't putting it into another enclosure void the warrantee?Help? (I'm sorry in advance if this has been posted in the past... I would just like to know what I should do)I know this involves Windows, but from reading what I have, I have determined that this forum has more intelligent people than any other.

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Jul 3, 2010

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Jul 8, 2010

I'm trying to format/repartition a 250 gig external Seagate drive. I get the following error:

Code:

Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, start=32256, size=250056705024, type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=250059350016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found

[code]....

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Oct 12, 2010

I'm trying to figure this one out, don't know why, but when I try to use my Asus USB DVD-Writer, to read DVD's, it will start to read the DVD, then all of a sudden just disappear as it was unplugged. I've tried different USB ports and same result, tried it on another computer and it works fine. Tried also install that USB-MODESWITCH and it appeared to helped, but have now returned to it's usual self

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