USB Hard Disk

[dwilliams]

I have a USB case for a 60GB 2.5" drive. I connect it to my wife's windows laptop and can format NTFS. I want to use it to backup my PC-BSD box, and possibly Linux box as well.I know I can format FAT32, but XP won't let me create partitions larger than 32GB.

I can see the disk, but it won't mount (because I deleted the NTFS partition, and it is not formatted). I'd like to format it as ext2. How do I do that?

Here is what I have so far:
[dave@Phlegethon /dev]$ diskinfo da0s1
da0s1 512 60003385344 117194112 7294 255 63

[dave@Phlegethon /dev]$ fdisk /dev/da0s1
******* Working on device /dev/da0s1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=7294 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=7294 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 117178047 (57215 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 125/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
[dave@Phlegethon /dev]$

I checked the boards, people recommend gparted and kparted. How do install them? I could not find PBIs nor can I find anything when I search the /user/ports/ for kparted or gparted.

Thanks!

[dracheflieger]

GParted is a boot ISO that you write to CD and then boot from it...I can't speak to kparted

[TerryP]

GParted and QTParted should allow you to do that. I just booted off a knoppix cd (with qtparted) just to sort my repartitioning. Needed to format a 80gb slice and edit stuff on a ext3fs.

AFAIK KPartEd does not yet support editing.