First, the phrase "unallocated filesystem" is an oxymoron -- unallocated space is just that: unallocated (unused). You can't put a filesystem in unallocated space.
In my search for the ideal filesystem to share files between a lot of computer with a lot of different OS'es I accepted this answer and installed a UDF filesystem on my USB stick.
First I blanked the disk, to make sure there are no leftovers to confuse a system that's reading the drive:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
Then I formatted the drive, using udftools from arch linux's AUR:
sudo mk
This is how my hard drive (where I have Xubuntu 12.10) is formatted currently, based on a recent GParted screenshot:
GParted Screenshot
I want to expand sda6 (4) to take up the free 11.72 GiB unallocated space. But I can't do it. This is what I did and gathered so far:
I can't add another primary partition as I have 4 already.
Hi,
I am having a Low Disk error, saying my file system is low. I ran a Disk Usage Analazyer on the file system and it has pleaty of space in the primary directories. What is showing up in red is 2 of my three drive I have automatically mounting on boot. The mounted drives are 1 and 2 TB and are formatted to ntfs.
/sda5 is ~/home. In GParted, to /sda5's left is 65 gig of unallocated space on the hard drive.
I tried expanding (in GParted terminology "resizing") the /sda5 to include the unallocated space, but the slider has nowhere to go.
Is it possible to make the unallocated space a part of /sda5?
I have a 2TB Western external HDD.
Its original filesystem was NTFS but I formatted it to EXT4.
I had no problem in Linux; But today after I mounted it using ext2fsd in a windows box, I cant mount it in linux anymore!
The drive had no partition but after that windows mount Disk Utility Shows it has a 1KB partition and 2TB unallocated space!!!
My Data are not corrupted (I still can view my files us
Allow to get straight to the point.
I have several partitions on a laptop and the last one on the end of the hard drive (sda) is now showing as "unallocated" within gParted, after I plaid around with some in front of it.
It has not been formatted or resized, or moved, but gParted shows it as "unallocated". It was an ext3 partition.
I'm currently filling up an empty 16GB flash drive which gives me a lot of time for imponderables. It's formatted as fat32 or whatever it came with (and I'll probably leave it that way for ease of portability). I'm just wondering if it would make any difference in write/access times if I had formatted it to ext2 or 3.
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