On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 20:46 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wolodja Wentland <babilen@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: > >> > > >> > Could you give us the output of > >> > > >> > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > > Sorry, I meant "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xa9a5ecc3 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 63 1953520127 976760032+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Ok, that is fine. One thing you might want to consider is to create two partitions on the drive. That would allow you to use the first with an ext3/4 filesystem for Debian and the other with an vfat filesystem for Debian, MS Windows and OSX. You can use, cfdisk, fdisk, parted and other programs to partition. cfdisk is probably easier to user use than fdisk and you can run it with "cfdisk /dev/sdb" -- Delete the existing partition and create two new (primary) ones. Something like 950GB for ext4 and the rest for vfat might make sense, but that depends on your usage. You can then create the ext3/4 filesystem (on /dev/sdb1) with the commands I mentioned in my other post and the vfat one with "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb2". You find mkfs.vfat in the dosfstools package. -- Wolodja <babilen@gmail.com> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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