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    Partitioning multiple drives

    I have a two-disk system. Loading 8.10 formatted the master drive, but I haven't partitioned the slave drive. How is this accomplished so that both drives are accessible and the second drive serves simply as data storage space?

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    Re: Partitioning multiple drives

    Ubuntu will automatically detect those drives for you. You can configure those drives to automount at startup (Sample on the link automount a NTFS partition).
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    Re: Partitioning multiple drives

    Go to Applications->Admin->Partition Editor and format using that. Partition away. If you want more than 4 partitions on the drive, create an extended partition the size of the drive and logical partitions inside that. If you want one big partition, no extended required. If you can't find Partition Editor, in a terminal paste:

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    Re: Partitioning multiple drives

    Thanks so much!

    Can I simply replace 'NTFS' with 'ext3_Drive'?

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    Re: Partitioning multiple drives

    Quote Originally Posted by kvk View Post
    Thanks so much!

    Can I simply replace 'NTFS' with 'ext3_Drive'?
    Sure do, you're choice of naming.
    Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of Stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

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