Solve : external hard drive on Linux??

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Answer» I bought an external HD, but I'm not sure how to WORK with it in Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) Is there a straightforward easy way to explain what to do? I have plugged it in and it's recognized. I put a small testfile on it, but can't put a large folder on there because there's only 1 MB free it says - the device is 1 TB though. Do I simply delete the .EXE file and other (cryptically named) folders and then follow some sort of format procedure? No, the drive is not usable until you get Linux to see it as a 1TB drive. Have you already saw this on ubuntu forums? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1632887It needs to be formatted before any OS will recognise it...http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 21, 2011, 05:29:27 PM No, the drive is not usable until you get Linux to see it as a 1TB drive. Have you already saw this on ubuntu forums? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1632887 thanks, that's interesting for a future PROJECT, but is quite off topic; it shows how to install an OS on usb.Quote from: JJ 3000 on January 22, 2011, 12:29:38 AM http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/ Thank you that looks like the right tutorial. I'll FIRST GOOGLE more about formats FAT32 and ext4 so I can understand which I need for using on Linux and both Windows and Mac as well.

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I bought an external HD, but I'm not sure how to WORK with it in Linux (Ubuntu 10.10)
Is there a straightforward easy way to explain what to do?

I have plugged it in and it's recognized.
I put a small testfile on it, but can't put a large folder on there because there's only 1 MB free it says - the device is 1 TB though.
Do I simply delete the .EXE file and other (cryptically named) folders and then follow some sort of format procedure? No, the drive is not usable until you get Linux to see it as a 1TB drive.
Have you already saw this on ubuntu forums?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1632887It needs to be formatted before any OS will recognise it...http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 21, 2011, 05:29:27 PM

No, the drive is not usable until you get Linux to see it as a 1TB drive.
Have you already saw this on ubuntu forums?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1632887

thanks, that's interesting for a future PROJECT, but is quite off topic; it shows how to install an OS on usb.Quote from: JJ 3000 on January 22, 2011, 12:29:38 AM

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17001/how-to-format-a-usb-drive-in-ubuntu-using-gparted/

Thank you that looks like the right tutorial.
I'll FIRST GOOGLE more about formats FAT32 and ext4 so I can understand which I need for using on Linux and both Windows and Mac as well.

Solve : external hard drive on Linux??

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