Hi,
I just bought a Seagate 1TB USB drive thinking that I could create a few partitions in it, format in ext3 fs, then configure bacula to setup a backup server in my CentOS box and backup my windows and mac clients.
I have plugged the drive and mounted in /mnt/usbdrive and is seen as /dev/sdb1 by the OS. The output of df command is:
[root@Production ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 74859680 16053996 55002960 23% / /dev/sda1 101086 27066 68801 29% /boot none 480176 0 480176 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 976760032 97808 976662224 1% /mnt/usbdrive
I am thinking of having three partitions instead of just one whole big 1 TB thing, and then format all three partitions in ext3. I tried doing fdisk, but cylinders are always confusing for me. Is there any GUI tool that could help me achieve this as I am newbie to Linux and not very confident with commands. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
/dev/sdb1 976760032 97808 976662224 1% /mnt/usbdrive
I am thinking of having three partitions instead of just one whole big 1 TB thing, and then format all three partitions in ext3. I tried doing fdisk, but cylinders are always confusing for me. Is there any GUI tool that could help me achieve this as I am newbie to Linux and not very confident with commands. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Don't be afraid of fdisk, it's really an easy tool to use. From your output above it's quite apparent that your USB drive is located at /dev/sdb. First unmount your drive (umount /dev/sdb1) and then run this command as root:
fdisk /dev/sdb
Then hit "d" to blow away that big vfat partition. Then you hit "n" to create a new partition. You don't have to know anything about cylinders, as fdisk will allow you to specify your partition sizes in megabytes. Create your three partitions, hit the 'w' key to write out the new partition table and you're almost done. Once the partition table is written you can format your shares like this:
mkfs -text3 /dev/sdb1 mkfs -text3 /dev/sdb2 mkfs -text3 /dev/sdb3
Easy.
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Sagar Koirala -
Sean Carolan