On Thursday 17 March 2005 11:51, et wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 05:12 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:48, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 09:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > > > I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk.
> > > > Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file
> > > > system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive
> > > > with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3
> > > > from be it the MCC or by hand. I can't even re-partition
> > > > it with FAT32 ?
> > > >
> > > > So here it goes : will this FAT32 file system become
> > > > fragmented over time like any other Windows file system ?
> > > >
> > > > If yes, how to defrag it ?
> > > >
> > > > Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive
> > > > back-and-forth in order to defrag ?
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > >
> > > > Kaj Haulrich.
> > >
> > > Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely
> > > remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never
> > > used the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do
> > > the same with that.
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if
> > I had, how could I get in into the external drive ?
> >
> > The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive.
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Kaj, I know this might sound dumb, but have you tried diskdrake?
> disk drake seems to me to be a damn well configured partittion
> manager tool. I never have tried to reformat a USB connected
> drive with it, but I would ex[ect it to handle it well.
Yes, Ed. Diskdrake gives the option to format the drive (/dev/sda1)
but nothing happens. The drive seems to be locked.
Kaj Haulrich.
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