So I bought an external 2TB disk to free up some space on the main disk. I gather I need to format it to ext3 as the humax only does small NTFS partitions. So I went though af123's upgrade wiki to get the idea, but since this is an external drive and not a replacement drive (and I don;t do much linux admin) I just wanted to check before I did too much.
So currently it shows as below.
I was a little surprised to see the external drive as sda1 and the internal one as sdb, but assume that is fine.
Are the errors anything to worry about (and where are they from - OK I could remove the new drive and check whether they are still there, but that will have to wait as I can;t do that now).
So I presume I just need a single partition and based ont he wiki I am thinking it is
mkfs.ext3 -m 0 -O sparse_super -T largefile /dev/sda1
But I am not sure I understood the wiki well enough as I don;t see where all "key properties:" and changes mentioned actually get specified.
Anyway, any help in reassuring me. I don;t want to do anything disaterous to the main disk and may only get very limited time to set up the new disk.
TIA.
So currently it shows as below.
humax# gfdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 2000 GB, 2000396321280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 243202 1953520033 7 HPFS/NTFS
Warning: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Disk /dev/sdb: 500 GB, 500105249280 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 131 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 132 59495 476833297 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 59496 60801 10482412 83 Linux
Error: /dev/mtdblock6: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock5: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock4: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock3: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock2: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock1: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock0: unrecognised disk label
I was a little surprised to see the external drive as sda1 and the internal one as sdb, but assume that is fine.
Are the errors anything to worry about (and where are they from - OK I could remove the new drive and check whether they are still there, but that will have to wait as I can;t do that now).
So I presume I just need a single partition and based ont he wiki I am thinking it is
mkfs.ext3 -m 0 -O sparse_super -T largefile /dev/sda1
But I am not sure I understood the wiki well enough as I don;t see where all "key properties:" and changes mentioned actually get specified.
Anyway, any help in reassuring me. I don;t want to do anything disaterous to the main disk and may only get very limited time to set up the new disk.
TIA.