I think I'm finally switching to Ubuntu on my main machine. I have two 160GB external drives, currently both with NTFS, currently mirrored (by software, not a RAID). With what and how should I format/use these guys? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 8 answers
I would like to recover data from two SATA hard drives that were once part of a single logical partition under Linux [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 2 answers
How do I transfer my current Ubuntu system to a new, larger hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2007 - 10 answers 
How can I wipe a hard drive if I can't boot from CD and there is no floppy drive? We want to install winXP on a machine with Ubuntu (eventual dual-boot).
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posted on Jan 28, 2007 - 14 answers
I have a SATA hard drive with all my data (yeah, I was just about to implement a backup scheme with rsync...), and my Ubuntu installation shit the bed. I'm back up, but the partition table on that drive is kablooey. It is formated ext3, and I have little reason to suspect that the data is not there.
Are there any good tools for restoring a partition table on ext3, or can this be done natively? Gparted shows the file system marked as ext3, but with a warning about not being able to open dumpe2fs. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2006 - 5 answers
What's the most sensible way to add redundant storage to an existing Linux system using LVM? [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 7 answers
LinuxN00bFilter: Linux and/or dual boot from external USB HD (not pen/flash drive, but a real hard drive) -- how? [more inside]
posted on Oct 1, 2006 - 5 answers
Debian won't find my hard drive! Please help! I have details so there's [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2006 - 14 answers
How do I format a Linux'd harddrive with XP? [more inside]
posted on Jun 14, 2006 - 7 answers
My USB2 hard drive will only stay mounted if I keep accessing it. If I don't, within 5 hours or fewer, I can't access files on the drive or even do a directory listing. I can then unmount the HD, power cycle it, and it will mount again as if nothing had happened. If I keep accessing the disk, say by continuously playing an MP3 mix on it, the disk acts completely normal: uptime now (with MP3s playing) is something like 20 hours without the shadow of a problem. [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2006 - 12 answers
