Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Wolodja Wentland <babilen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's exactly what I wished for.
>
> but I felt I made another silly decisions couple of minutes ago, I
> tried to feed the hard drive a bit,
> so I am transferring some data into it.
>>
>> 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.

cfdisk there is a bootable option, do I need give a partiation for
bootable here? if I need, what's the recommended size?

Here, boot means, boot the driver? I feel I don't need.

Thanks,
>>
>> 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.
>
> I will try. Thanks very much.
>> --
>> Wolodja <babilen@gmail.com>
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> Best Regards,
>
> lina
>



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Best Regards,

lina