On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:11 +0100, Avi Greenbury <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > It's NTFS. I originally put all the stuff on it from a Windows > > machine, which uses NTFS by default. I have experienced no problems > > in using it on the newer Ubuntu machine. But once, I did power down > > without unmounting it, and the next time I started it, it > > complained of an 'unclean demount'. The way I got out of it then was > > by putting it back on the Windows machine and closing it down from > > there, but I don't want to have to do that in future, as I may not > > have a Windows machine to do it on. > > In that case, you'll want to be using a Linux native filesystem, for > which repair tools exist in Linux. Ext3 or ext4 are likely a good bet, > others may be more appropriate depending on what you intend to store > on it and how you intend to access it. NTFS is a good option if you've > a Windows PC for it to interact with. If there's no Windows about, > life tends to be easier if you stick with Linux native filesystems. > Unfortunately, there's no way to convert it, you'll be looking at > copying files elsewhere to convert it, unless it's less than half > full. Avi Greenbury Aha, well, as it happens, it is less than half full. So I take it that there is some procedure whereby I can create new and more Ubuntu-friendly partitions on it alongside the NTFS ones and then move all the files into them and finally delete the NTFS partitions? This might take a while, but it would be worth doing if in future handling the drive on Ubuntu machines will be much easier. It's a 500GB drive and I have only 125GB in use currently. So please tell me where to go for instructions on this. I'm glad I asked, now. Thanks, Avi. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
