[Swlug] External hard drive

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 15:56, Bill Thomson via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> That sounds good Colin, I've unplugged it and it disappeared after I refreshed gparted, so it's now underway - I'm creating a single partition, and it says it's now pending. How long does it take for a 1Tb SSD drive? Perhaps I've got something wrong here ...

You have to tell it to go.  On my version it is a green tick button at the top.

Colin


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> Bill
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> On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 15:23:56 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 15:12, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> > 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!
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> 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
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> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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