Hello, I just bought a Samsung S1 Mini External drive (120gb) with hopes to transfer the Ubuntu (which I boot from, using a number of work and home computers) and NTFS Data partitions from my Maxtor Basics Portable since the S1 Mini is much easier to carry around. When I connect the drive, Ubuntu sees and mounts it fine, but in order to boot from it I try to use GParted to set up the partitions to resemble the ones on my Maxtor; and that's where the trouble starts. First of all, the graphical map shows the disk as having one Unknown Partition of size 13.97 GB (which is EXACTLY 1/8 of its actual capacity). So I ran gksu gparted to see if it was throwing up any errors, and sure enough :
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Device /dev/sde has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.
fdisk -l has the following output for the relevant drive:
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Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /dev/sde: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 1824 117209988 7 HPFS/NTFS
It seems to me that I will not be able to boot Ubuntu from this drive until I get the logical volume size to 512 somehow, or until parted starts supporting this size (tried karmic alpha 4, it doesnt - yet)
Any thoughts? Any tools to convert? Any help would be much much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Boluc Papuccuoglu
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