[olug] Portable HD box

[Jay Swackhamer]

Why is it an extended partition, with no partitions in it?

fdisk /dev/sdg
t
1
82
w

--or--

fdisk /dev/sdg
d
1
n
p
1
<enter>
<enter>
w

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdg1

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Quoting Shannon <ridgid at gmail.com>:

> looks like you need to format the drive, if you are going to use it to
> connect to an windows boxs you will need to format it NTFS, otherwise go
> with a linux type like ext3.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jack <jdunn110 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Tyro question:
>>
>>        I just successfullly put together a portable hard drive box.
>>
>>        Now I'm trying to figure out how to use it.  Everything I Google
>> just
>> says "well, put the hardware together and plug it in, and it works."  But I
>> think they left out something because my USB ports don't recognize it (they
>> do find flashdrives without a problem).  And it is plugged in, turned on
>> and
>> connected to the USB port.  I can hear the HD spin up when I turn it on.
>>
>>        I have it partitioned as one big partition (320 GB) using fdisk and
>> this is
>> how "fdisk -l" displays it:
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdg: 320.0 GB, 320071851520 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdg1   *           1       38913   312568641    5  Extended
>>
>> (I set it to boot, but that didn't seem to help)
>>
>>        Does it need an operating system?
>>
>>        Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>>        Jack
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