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Old 05-15-2011, 01:26 PM   #1
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Lost ubuntu


When reinstalling ubuntu 10.04, I get an error message that reads "the ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI3 (0,0,0) (sda) failled.
 
Old 05-15-2011, 02:00 PM   #2
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Have you booted just as a live session.

Code:
sudo apt-get install gparted
then

Code:
sudo gparted
And Delete previous Ubuntu install partition before proceeding with install. You can also manually create a ext4 partition with gparted before proceeding with install also.
 
  


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