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<div>Hi Colin, thanks for the info. I've installed gparted and then looked at it as a GUI.</div><div><br></div><div>My system disc is 250GB. This, I think, is showing up as /dev/sda, with 3 partitions, labelled /dev/sda1 ext2 (243MiB), extended dev/sda2 (232.65GiB) and crypt-luks /dev/sda5 (232.65GiB)</div><div><br></div><div>I assume this is the mounted hard drive with all my data on!</div><div><br></div><div>The other drive I can find is 931.51GiB and is unallocated in both partition and file system, with no used sectors. I think this should be the external 1Tb drive, but would value your input before I format it!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bill<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 14:53:18 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 14:33, Bill Thomson via Swlug<br clear="none"><<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Feb 2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.771741] sdb: unknown partition table<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is that the other one? It needs the partition table re-creating. You<br clear="none">can do that in gparted too. Select the drive then Device > Create<br clear="none">Partition Table. You want type msdos. Again just make sure you are<br clear="none">doing it on the right drive :) Then you can create the partion(s) you<br clear="none">want.<div class="yqt9707699319" id="yqtfd47573"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Colin<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Swlug mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">Swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/swlug" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/swlug</a></div></div></div>
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