Formatting to EXT3
Hi all, im dual booting Slackware and xp, in xp i just deleted an empty NTFS partition, its now unallocated space. I thought i could just put in the slackware cd and use cfdisk to format it to EXT3, but the unallocated drive isnt showing up :/ Anyone know how i can format this unallocated space in windows or much better in Slackware to EXT3?
Any help greatly appreciated. |
You can use fdisk to make an entry for it in the partition table, and then, assuming its name is /dev/hdaX, create an ext3 filesystem on it with mke2fs -j /dev/hdaX.
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You can try booting into slack and using cfdisk there. If no joy that way, you can also try gparted which is a nice graphical partition magic clone for linux that has its own bootable livecd(23MB download):
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Of course you must create a partition on the unallocated space before you can format it. |
I think im going to have to try them ways, I used Paragon Partition Manager in xp to format it to EXT3, put it in my fstab file under /space but its only coming up as 22gb when its a 115gb drive.
Any ideas? |
Post the output of the command
fdisk -l (that is a small L) (must be root to use fdisk) |
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes |
fdisk is reporting the size of hdb correctly. now you can run
Code:
fdisk /dev/hdb |
hdb1 is an extended partition. In a nutshell a container for logical partitions like your /dev/hda3.
Change the partition type to 83 and then format hdb1 as desired. |
Im confused :o
I type "fdisk /dev/hdb" then "t", type "83" and i get Code:
No partition is defined yet! Code:
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83 Code:
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83 Where am i going wrong? |
Its been awhile since I've had to repartition a drive.
It appears you need to delete the existing and recreate it using the correct partition id. |
Sorry for late post.
You can recover your lost or unseen partition which was accidently not visible by using Partition Table Doctor for windows which was too helpful for me when I was under the same problem |
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