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Some sad words about the Partition Editor

TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux

I learned a difficult lesson today.  while using GParted to partition a hard drive, I attempted to change the label of a partition on my drive.  A careful reading of the warning indicates that it will erase the drive not the partition. 
Caveat operator.

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How to Format a Fat32 USB in xUbuntu

TaleSlinger on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Tech, linux

I wanted to format a large USB hard drive as FAT32, so that I oculd easily move data between Linux and Windows. 

I had trouble doing it in Windows XP (personal edition) because there was no option to format as FAT32 (only NTFS).
I tried using Partition Magic, but it wouldn’t do the USB drive on […]

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