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Is there a way to partition a External Hard drive ?
I have a WD 500GB external hard drive with USB interface
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What Filesystem should I use for an external USB harddrive (500GB), with possibility
to share with a Mac and Windows systems, for example at the office.
Now it is NTFS but back in the day the NTFS support was not stable under Linux and I think it is not supported on a Mac.
I would just use FAT32…
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So I dualboot 12.10 and Win7. Both OSs are on the primary SSD while all commonly used data (documents, movies, music, profiles etc) is on a secondary NTFS-formatted HDD.
Since I needed the NTFS drive to automatically mount in Ubuntu right at startup, I downloaded ntfs-config and set it to automount…
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I would like to reformat my hard disk, and if possible recover the (somewhat unimportant) contents if possible.
I have a Western Digital 1TB hard drive which had a NTFS partition.
I unplugged the drive without safely removing it first.
At first a pop up was asking me to use a Windows OS to run the…
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I have a server that is setup in raid. It is on the same network as my main computer. I would like to have some of the memory on my server to act as a network attached drive on my main computer. Basically, I want it to be a new data drive (similar two C:\, but 2nd drives are mostly E:). That way,…
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I have a 1TB external that I've used to backup my Mac for the past year using Time Machine. Unfortunately, my hard drive is getting close to full, and I'd like to move some of the stuff off of my Mac onto the same external drive. The problem is that the external drive is already full with my Time…
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