Ubuntu :: Format Entire Partition To Be Used?

May 24, 2010

I have succeeded in deleting my former Windows XP partition and it is now unallocated. How do I allocate all of the space to Ubuntu?

Attached is my Gparted screen. There was an error when booting Ubuntu initially and I was never able to dual boot. XP is gone now. I want Ubuntu to have all the space

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(So the forum rules won't let me post the link, neato. Here it is with spaces added):
h t t p s : / / h e l p . u b u n t u . c o m / c o m m u n i t y / I n s t a l l i n g A N e w H a r d D r i v e

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Code:

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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
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root (hd0,0)
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error: block relocator should have relocated 533 Warning: You should reinstall your boot loader before rebooting. Read section 4 of the Parted User documentation for more information. I am using Slackware 12.1, GNU parted 1.8.8, ext2 filesystem.

Some output that may be of use:

root@asus:~# parted /dev/hdb print
Model: ST3500630A (ide)
Disk /dev/hdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

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I have a server with 3 hard drives

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The 400GB has the OS and SWAP while the 1TB are going to be used as storage....

Now for the problem, when I have both the 1TB drives in I can not format or mount either 1TB drives. Says Device is in use or "The device file '/dev/sdc1' does not exist"

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Ubuntu Server Linux 9.10

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Just ran into a problem involving mdadm, a disk which had been in a raid array, and an attempt to reformat. Basically, I went to reformat some partitions which had been in raid, and one of them threw the error andy@andy-desktop:~$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb5 mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) /dev/sdb5 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here! An attempt to umount revealed it was not mounted. lvdisplay and fuser did not reveal anything to me, so I just started looking around. I was graphically navigating /dev and noticed a /dev/md_d0 which did not look like /dev/md_d1 etc (it was missing a little arrow). I had not seen this notation before (my raid was md0), but figured it couldn't hurt to try stopping it.

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mdadm: md device /dev/md_d0 does not appear to be active.
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mdadm: stopped /dev/md_d0

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