rogerfgay
November 19th, 2010, 04:24 PM
Reformatting two drives before re-installation.
I'm new to Linux generally. Can someone give me instructions on formatting the hard drives?
I have installed ubuntu on a machine that had been running Windows for a while. Since Windows worked the boot drive for years, I decided to switch the positions of the two drives; putting the old data drive into the boot position.
Apparently, ubunta was too smart for me. I guess it discovered the Windows installation, and decided that's where it should be installed too. Now, what I would like to do - and I would really like to do it this way - is reformat both the disks, wiping out everything that's on both of them; before running another installation.
BTW: the old data drive is still NTFS, and I don't want installations own both disks - reformatting and starting fresh seems nice and clean, if not entirely necessary.
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
logical name: scsi2
logical name: scsi4
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:45 ioport:18c8(size=8) ioport:18ac(size=4) ioport:18c0(size=8) ioport:18a8(size=4) ioport:18b0(size=16) memory:de304400-de3047ff
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9120821AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 7.24
serial: 5PL35K3F
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=677053da
*-volume
description: Windows NTFS volume
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
version: 3.1
serial: eab5b741-7bb2-c143-a33a-e42417e6750f
size: 111GiB
capacity: 111GiB
capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2006-04-29 06:53:46 filesystem=ntfs label=Data state=clean
*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9120821AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 7.24
serial: 5PL30822
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000527cc
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: b0fcc4bb-8eb3-4dbc-a8a8-49263b78c86e
size: 107GiB
capacity: 107GiB
capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2010-11-17 17:46:12 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/�<��ï�����ï��������Pï¿ ½r��l!�����@�r�h,�h,ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï ¿½ï¿½h�r�yo!��d modified=2010-11-18 08:39:05 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2010-11-18 17:09:54 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sdb2
size: 4693MiB
capacity: 4693MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sdb5
capacity: 4693MiB
capabilities: nofs
I'm new to Linux generally. Can someone give me instructions on formatting the hard drives?
I have installed ubuntu on a machine that had been running Windows for a while. Since Windows worked the boot drive for years, I decided to switch the positions of the two drives; putting the old data drive into the boot position.
Apparently, ubunta was too smart for me. I guess it discovered the Windows installation, and decided that's where it should be installed too. Now, what I would like to do - and I would really like to do it this way - is reformat both the disks, wiping out everything that's on both of them; before running another installation.
BTW: the old data drive is still NTFS, and I don't want installations own both disks - reformatting and starting fresh seems nice and clean, if not entirely necessary.
*-storage
description: SATA controller
product: 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
logical name: scsi2
logical name: scsi4
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:45 ioport:18c8(size=8) ioport:18ac(size=4) ioport:18c0(size=8) ioport:18a8(size=4) ioport:18b0(size=16) memory:de304400-de3047ff
*-disk:0
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9120821AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 7.24
serial: 5PL35K3F
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=677053da
*-volume
description: Windows NTFS volume
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
version: 3.1
serial: eab5b741-7bb2-c143-a33a-e42417e6750f
size: 111GiB
capacity: 111GiB
capabilities: primary bootable ntfs initialized
configuration: clustersize=4096 created=2006-04-29 06:53:46 filesystem=ntfs label=Data state=clean
*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: ST9120821AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 7.24
serial: 5PL30822
size: 111GiB (120GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000527cc
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: b0fcc4bb-8eb3-4dbc-a8a8-49263b78c86e
size: 107GiB
capacity: 107GiB
capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2010-11-17 17:46:12 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/�<��ï�����ï��������Pï¿ ½r��l!�����@�r�h,�h,ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï ¿½ï¿½h�r�yo!��d modified=2010-11-18 08:39:05 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2010-11-18 17:09:54 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@4:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sdb2
size: 4693MiB
capacity: 4693MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sdb5
capacity: 4693MiB
capabilities: nofs