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LordBenjamen
July 29th, 2009, 10:13 PM
I'm kinda a noob to linux but i'm really starting to love it.. i've already filled my 250g hard drive up and i've been trying to add another 250g hd from my old computer.. I've managed to get gparted and format the drive.. its unallocated but i can't figure out how to get it so i can use it.. if someone can help me i'd be very grateful.. thanks.. i'm not very good with ubuntu so i might need a some deep explaining..

Lavaeagle
July 29th, 2009, 10:16 PM
I installed my internal HDD under Vista and formatted it to NTFS so I would suggest:
- When you format it make sure that it formats to ext3 (This is what Ubuntu reads off of)

gletob
July 29th, 2009, 10:20 PM
In Gparted right click the unlocated space in the list and click new. Then in The box that says filesystem choose witch FS to go with.

EXT3/4 (I perfer 4, but it depends on what version your running) or NTFS if you want to share the drive with windows.

What did you have in mind for this drive?

LordBenjamen
July 29th, 2009, 10:25 PM
I just want the space for media.. movies, music, etc.. but the problem is when i format into ext3/4 i still can't put any media into the drive

whitethorn
July 29th, 2009, 11:14 PM
do you know if it's getting mounted? Or what kind of error are you getting?

Could you paste the output of



sudo fdisk -l

and


df -h