[Swlug] External hard drive

[Bill Thomson]

 Hi Colin, thanks for the info. I've installed gparted and then looked at it as a GUI.
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)
I assume this is the mounted hard drive with all my data on!
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!
Cheers,Bill



    On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 14:53:18 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
 
 On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 14:33, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Feb  2 14:31:46 bill-HP-EliteBook-8460p kernel: [ 1717.771741]  sdb: unknown partition table

Is that the other one?  It needs the partition table re-creating.  You
can do that in gparted too.  Select the drive then Device > Create
Partition Table.  You want type msdos.  Again just make sure you are
doing it on the right drive :)  Then you can create the partion(s) you
want.

Colin

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