On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 May 2010 15:41, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Don't forget to back it up first. > > Colin
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