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nima17
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WD MyBook Essential 1T & linux

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‎08-19-2010 01:24 AM

Hi,

I've just bought a new WD MuBook Essential 1T inorder to archive my important data.

I use Linux (only linux) and I prefer to use linux file-systems for my hard drives. However linux can read & write on NTFS file system (which is the default filesystem of the hard drive), but I wanted to change my new external har drive to ext3,

but it seems that there is no way to format the partition (may be because of the 'lock' thing !?!)

so, my question is :

1. is it ok to format the hard  and change it to two ext3 partitions

2. if it's ok, how is it possible ? (I tried gparted, but I can't format it)

 

P.S : I have another 500G "passport" WD external hard drive, and I didn't have any problem with changing it to ext3

 

thanx in advance :smileyhappy:

 

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Re: WD MyBook Essential 1T & linux

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‎08-20-2010 12:16 AM

oops ! it was just a mounting issue !

solved !

:smileyhappy:

 

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