[olug] Portable HD box

[Jay Swackhamer]

Sorry, 90% of the time is changing the type to swap,
The first try Should have been

fdisk /dev/sdg
t
1
83
w

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Quoting Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com>:

> 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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> Jay Swackhamer
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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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