On Wed 11 Dec 2013 22:07:35 NZDT +1300, Barry wrote: > I just purchased a 1TB drive which uses usb3 & usb2. It is formatted > NTFS-3G in a single partition. I would like to divide it and > reformat it with ext3 or ext4. There are some Registration files etc > from Seagate on it & 2 printed pages of instructions in sign > language.
Copy off any files you want to keep, then treat it as a blank disk. Never fdisk after midnight! I got into the habit of making sure I start cleanly, so dd bs=1M count=10 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX fixes that. UNPLUG THE DISK NOW! (And always sync first) This is also how you find out that partition tables and alignments have changed. It really hits you above 2TB (fdisk doesn't work, and I find gdisk a sad replacement). Re-plug it, create a partition table. Don't put too many partitions on it. In fact, if it's a backup disk, encrypt it first, then partition it. LUKS is the done thing now. Use ext4, it has significant improvements over ext3 on larger drives (where reiserfs was years earlier). All the ext* still poop lost+found around. Billy isn't compatible with this, ask Billy to get up to scratch or just ignore him (best option). I would not choose a filesystem that doesn't store ownerships, permissions, ACLs and extended attributes properly, especially on a backup disk. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
