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From: Will Kemp on 18 Dec 2007 13:32
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:30 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:

>> I've never managed to get gparted to do anything i wanted it to do - it
>> rarely seems to actually want to change anything.
>
> Some reasons it could fail to do what you want:
>
> (a) The partition is mounted - IIRC it displays a little padlock next to
> it if so.

Yeah, i figured that. I can't remember details of what i've tried to do
now. I've got windows dual bootable, and just happen to have a copy of
partition magic, so i used that instead.

> (b) Some operations need extra packages to be installed.

Ah, that might explain it!

Thanks
Will
From: Ben Bacarisse on 19 Dec 2007 06:45
Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:30 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
>
>> (b) Some operations need extra packages to be installed.
>
> Ah, that might explain it!

I have found http://www.sysresccd.org/ to be very useful for this kind
of thing.

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Ben.
From: Jabali Pragya on 17 Dec 2007 14:54
Martin wrote:

> I have a usb hard drive that's permanently connected to the system, what
> I would like to do is have it automount at boot I know its something to
> do with fstab but I am unsure of what else I need to do.
>
> The mount point is /media/500gig and at the moment its vfat, but would
> ideally like to change that to be a Linux ext3 if it could be done whilst
> there's still data on it then all the better but thats my next howto.

Don't know which distro you are using. I have just added a 500GB USB drive
(Western Digital Elements). It was recognised by Mandriva 2008 as a
plug-&-play USB drive and mounted as /media/sda1. It is automatically
recognised every time I boot-up. I checked the fstab and it is not changed.
In the devices folder it is shown as an icon with the name Elements. It
came as Fat32 (vfat) format.

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jabali
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