Re: new guy checking in


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From: Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jimmy Montague wrote:

Right now I need some help with hdd administration. My system has 3
hdds: I have two 80-gig ide Western Digitals. One is Master on the
primary strap; the other is Master on the secondary strap. The
third drive is an 80-gig Maxtor mounted externally via USB.

Ubuntu formatted the WD on the primary strap. It is hda. Ubuntu did
NOT format either of the other two drives. The master on the
secondary strap is still formatted NTFS. So is the Maxtor. I want
EVERYTHING formatted Linux, in whatever fashion you guys think is
best.

How can I do that?

I presume that you're running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 (rather than Kubuntu
or Xubuntu). And I presume that you've already got anything that you
wanted off the two NTFS drives. :-)

I'm very partial to GParted. A very good tool much like Partition
Magic under Windows that you might want to have in your bag of tricks.

Go here to download the CD ISO image (0.3.7.7):
<http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>

Reboot with it in place and use it to delete the partitions on the two
NTFS drives and replace them with whatever you're using for Ubuntu,
which is probably ext3 (the default).

HTH...and welcome aboard.
--

Since the two remaining drives are separate disks,

sudo apt-get install gparted

will install gparted which can then be run from within your installed distro.

Make sure you format hdb and hdc, not hda!!!
Paul

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