Drive formatting

[Duda Nogueira]

Hi Bill!

Gparted sometimes doesn't do want we want to.

Just yesterday i experienced that. I was trying to create a new
partition, but it doesn't stopped reading the devices...

The good and old (since 1994) cfdisk was the solution.

just hit:

sudo cfdisk
or
sudo cfdisk /dev/sdX
where sdX should be your device.

It will show the available devices (it works for plugged pendrives and
mp3players too) on a simple interface to delete, create and other
operations.

If you need help, let us know!

Bye!

On Dec 11, 2007 12:26 AM, William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>  I tried gparted but it won't see the device. Refreshing the device list
> remounts it, opens the file browser windows and closes gparted.... all in
> one click !
>
>
>  Bill
>
>
>
>  Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>  On Dec 10, 2007 8:04 PM, William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi all:
>
> I have recently upgraded to a newer machine that has only SATA ports and
> I have a number of IDE drives that are still quite useful in capacity. I
> bought an external drive case to use them through the USB port. Rather
> than reconstruct an old machine, is there a way to partition and format
> through the USB port ? I've looked through various system menus but no
> options are apparent. Suggestions ?
>
>  have you looked at gparted? It's not installed by default, so you may
> have to install it using synaptic. That's the software I use when I
> need to format or modify a disk partition.
>
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