On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Wolodja Wentland <babi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 20:46 +0800, lina wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wolodja Wentland <babi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Could you give us the output of >> >> > >> >> > # fdisk -l /dev/sda >> > >> > Sorry, I meant "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" >> >> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors >> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >> Disk identifier: 0xa9a5ecc3 >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sdb1 63 1953520127 976760032+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > > Ok, that is fine. One thing you might want to consider is to create two > partitions on the drive. That would allow you to use the first with an ext3/4 > filesystem for Debian and the other with an vfat filesystem for Debian, MS > Windows and OSX.
That's exactly what I wished for. but I felt I made another silly decisions couple of minutes ago, I tried to feed the hard drive a bit, so I am transferring some data into it. > > You can use, cfdisk, fdisk, parted and other programs to partition. cfdisk is > probably easier to user use than fdisk and you can run it with "cfdisk > /dev/sdb" -- Delete the existing partition and create two new (primary) ones. > Something like 950GB for ext4 and the rest for vfat might make sense, but that > depends on your usage. > > You can then create the ext3/4 filesystem (on /dev/sdb1) with the commands I > mentioned in my other post and the vfat one with "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb2". You > find mkfs.vfat in the dosfstools package. I will try. Thanks very much. > -- > Wolodja <babi...@gmail.com> > > 4096R/CAF14EFC > 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC > -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJmmRMg-u4ZtCZzQAFk7V++h8qST+M+NrD=cZo67vf+=f...@mail.gmail.com
