On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Easy. Using Gparted, shrink the NTFS partition to half the drive. (Say). Make a new extended partition. In there make a logical drive. Format it ext3. Mount both. Move all the stuff from the NTFS partition to the ext3 partition. When the NTFS partition is empty, unmount both. Use Gparted to remove the NTFS partition. Expand the ext3 partition to fill the drive. Job done. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
