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  Date: Jan 08    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 367
  

I am having problems big time. I have two external hard drives one of
them I brought files over from XP on and the other has GHost back up
files from XP. I took the My Documents files and copyed them into My
home directory.
Now I would like to have one of the drives to back up my Ubuntu
system on and would like to store all my pictures vidio and so forth on
the other. I plan to pull them off and use them in cinelerra to make
video. This will keep my main internal hard drive fairly clear to do
Video on This drive is marked owner unknown and read only don't
know how to clear this drive or reformat? I can't mount it or
write to it.
The other drive the Ghost backup drive. It is owned by root and is
read only. I tried to reformat as per page 225 in the ubantu official
book. my comand was Sudo mkfs,ext3 /dev/sda1
Terminal returned with: mke2fs 1.40-wip (14-nov2006) /dev/sda1 is
mounted; will not make a file system here!
I guess this is telling me I cannot reformat this drive. Do I have
to take this removable drive to a windows computer to reformat?? I'm
not sure but I may have made these files read only when loading them
from XP ??
My computer is a HP pavilian a 720 n and I have ubuntu updated to
7.04 Studio.
Any help here wil be looked on with apreciation.

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Answer #1    Answered On: Jan 08    

If I understand what you are trying to do here, you have several steps to do.

First, you want to use fdisk to remove the existing Windows partitions
from each disk. This will delete all the data on them.

Then, use fdisk to create a new Linux partition on each.

Then use mkfs.ext3 to create a new ext3 filesystem on each disk.

That should do it. They should be mountable at this point.

I know that's easier said than done, but a little research should help.

 
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