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Format Harddrive, Ubuntu 8.04

 
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Format Harddrive, Ubuntu 8.04
Thorian
post 28 Apr, 2008 - 08:24 AM
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Here is the deal I scrounged up an old server with 2 P3 800's 2 GB of ram and a pair of 300 GB IDE drives I have a 20 gb drive that I installed ubuntu on to. and the other drives are showing up with their old windows contents.

This box used to be an image storage server but since we got the SAN installed we haven't used this thing so I figured samba file server FTW.

Unfortunately I have never done squat with linux to any great level so I dont know the command structure. The drive ID is 0,1,0 at boot and /// under the properties in computer.

I tried to install ubuntu server first and found out that I needed a GUI if I were to ever really use this.


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post 28 Apr, 2008 - 08:30 AM
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QUOTE(Thorian @ 28 Apr, 2008 - 11:24 AM) *

I tried to install ubuntu server first and found out that I needed a GUI if I were to ever really use this.

If you are not up to speed with Linux on a server level, I would suggest against learning with Ubuntu. I would suggest getting something with known server strength (& usage) like a Debian, or FreeBSD. Anything that forces a GUI, shouldn't be used in a server environment (such as Windows)

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post 28 Apr, 2008 - 09:36 AM
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Umm that is a nice observation and I am downloading freeBSD. But how do I format a drive?
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post 28 Apr, 2008 - 09:49 AM
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Lots of distros will have a formatter/partitioner/etc. on their install CD.

I don't entirely agree with no2pencil about Ubuntu not being viable as a server - there is a Ubuntu server flavor available, and it's worked for me just fine.

here is the guide I used to format a drive for my linux box.
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Yep ubuntu has a partitioner but it only will partition out the main drive. There does not seem to be a listing of devices

sudo Fdisk /dev/hda
sudo fdisk /dev/hdb come up unable to open when I used sudo fdisk /// that ubuntu listed as the second drive location it comes up asking for root password and then comes up unable to read.

See this is the problem with linux what should be a simple command on a known file structure is a bunch of obscure bullshit.
I can format a goddamn drive in every flavor of windows and mac os ever created except for this supposidly friendly linux distro. It is no one heres fault just my main arguement against linux from the beginning.
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QUOTE(Thorian @ 28 Apr, 2008 - 12:36 PM) *

Umm that is a nice observation and I am downloading freeBSD. But how do I format a drive?

The equivalent of the format command in Linux is mkfs which is short for Make File System. The tricky part is, you'll have to decide which file system you want to make first, & then use the appropriate mkfs command. With windows, the format command is obviously limited to the fat, fat32, & NTFS. So it may seem tricky, for Linux, but in fact you just have a much, much wider range of options. It is as simple, or as complex as you want it to be.
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