Partitioning/Formatting An External Hard Drive

[ghost.x]

I recently purchased an external hard drive, and I would like to create a partition and format the partition with ext3. I am running Kubuntu 6.10. Please advise me as to what the best solution would be; and how to accomplish it. Thanks.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Partitioning/Formatting An External Hard Drive

Make GParted your friend (sudo apt-get install gparted, if applicable; further reading)

Birdy

[ghost.x]

Re: Partitioning/Formatting An External Hard Drive

Thanks a million. I love this program. gparted is definitely my friend now.