<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello<br><br>Thanks everyone for the replies, though I do like the idea of using gParted.<br><br>Richard, could you tell me if the graphics representing the partitions show how the data is stored (i.e. to one end of the partition), or whether the data could be anywhere in the partition, please? I'm wanting to shrink some partitions and therefore wanting to know if such an action will delete some data.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Ron<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 24/11/09, Richard Ward <i><daedalusfall@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Richard Ward <daedalusfall@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Reformatting a second harddrive<br>To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Tuesday, 24 November, 2009,
7:33<br><br><div class="plainMail">James Gibbon wrote:<br>> Hi Ron,<br>> <br>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:05 +0000 (GMT)<br>> Ron Wilton <<a ymailto="mailto:ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk">ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>>> I currently have two<br>>> internal harddrives on computer.<br>>><br>>> I want to reformat the second one [...]<br>> [...] put a new filesystem on it by<br>> using mkfs.ext3 (or equivalent) from a terminal.<br>> <br><br>If you want a nice gui for partitioning things, try gparted (GNOME <br>Partition Editor). It will also let you see what your current partitions <br>on any given drive are.<br><br>While I am usually happy to do things from the terminal I prefer using <br>gparted for formatting stuff - its easier to identify which drive is <br>which, its much harder to make mistakes, and presents all the options <br>for moving/resizing
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