Hello folks: I need to resize an ntfs partition to make room for a linux distro. Since I've never resized an ntfs partition before, I dug up a spare drive I had laying around with the intent to format it to include an ntfs partition that I can later resize. In fact, the plan was to format the drive to have a similar layout to the drive that I eventually want to target. Alas, in trying to create the layout on the second drive I seem to have F@&%ed it up to the point that it's no longer recognized by the OS. Is there anyone that can suggest a course of action to revive the drive?
My test drive is a 1T drive that's connected to the computer via usb and I'm trying to format the drive so that it'll boot in a (u)efi machine. The last thing I did with the drive was to try and create one large partition formatted with a fat32 filesystem. When I last used the machine and drive, I was still able to mount, umount, and access the drive with parted but when I turned off the machine and rebooted, the device wouldn't attach to a device file in /dev thus preventing me from either mounting the drive or using parted/fdisk to repartition it. If I were to ask a specific question it would be "How to I coerce linux into connecting the drive to a device (in /dev) so that I can run something like fdisk or parted on the device be able to create a filesystem with mkfs"? thanks, eds _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
