[Swlug] External hard drive

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 15:12, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin, thanks for the info. I've installed gparted and then looked at it as a GUI.
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> 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)
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> I assume this is the mounted hard drive with all my data on!
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> 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!

That sounds good, I assume it is showing up as sdb, which is what it
said in the log when you plugged it in.  To make absolutely certain
you could unplug it and check it disappears from gparted, then back in
again.  Not sure if you will have to restart gparted to get it to
update.

Colin


>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 14:53:18 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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