Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/13/2011 08:36 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On 12/12/2011 03:33 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space. That rather depends on what you're putting o

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-13 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 12/12/2011 03:33 AM, Tim wrote: On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space. That rather depends on what you're putting on the drive (e.g. whopping huge video editing f

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 12:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: > By default 5% of the disk is "reserved for root", totally stupid > default. Use tune2fs -m 0 to recover this space. That rather depends on what you're putting on the drive (e.g. whopping huge video editing files), and whether you do need to m

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: >> On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the >>> commands, but -l would probably provide a >>> list of what was there, so I di

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 21:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > On 12/11/2011 03:13 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> agreed that the default fo 5% is simply stupid these days >> there shoud be used reserved blocks (-r) because in days >> of volumes with 1,2,4, and> 5 TB 5% is a large amount >> >> but well, it is a

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 03:09 PM, John Wendel wrote: On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? Anyway, thank

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 21:09, schrieb John Wendel: > On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the >> commands, but -l would probably provide a >> list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? >> >>

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread John Wendel
On 12/11/2011 10:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands, but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that. 'm' for listing the options. Menu? Anyway, thanks, o did the trick, I now have a 1Gb EXT4 pa

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:42, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > I have not used fdisk for a LNG time, and could not remember the commands and that is why fdisk is showing them with "m" > but -l would probably provide a list of what was there, so I did that well, but there is nothing to change > 'm' for

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 01:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.12.2011 19:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: use fdisk or gparted and create a new partition table So help me here a bit with fdisk. I have the following: fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/t

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/12/2011 19:25, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : > On 12/11/2011 01:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >>> I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS >>> partition then create one 1Tb E

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:25, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> use fdisk or gparted and create a new partition table > > So help me here a bit with fdisk. I have the following: > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 19

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 12/11/2011 01:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS >> partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. >> >> When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the >> NTFS

Re: External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.12.2011 19:12, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: > I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS > partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. > > When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the > NTFS partition: > > > Error erasing: helper exited

External drive partitioning problems

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the NTFS partition: Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, o