This one we’re going to format our drives and let’s say you have a USB drive or an external hard drive or any part kind of partition that you want to format. Now for this example, we are going to format to NTFS so you need some packages to install.
Open you’re synaptic, you want to search for gparted and install this package, gparted, and you want to search for NTFS progs also and install this one. This handles NTFS and you got those two packages and then you’re dong with that.
Now for your drives, if you have a USB stick just plug it in and it should mount. All this are my drives, but make sure the one that you want to format, make sure it’s unmounted. So you want to right click on it and it says un-mount and now it’s unmounted. You see a white icon there so we’ve done that. Now we go to our systems and administration and go down to partition editor.
This is our gparted that we just installed and it’s scanning for our drives. This will take for a few minutes; okay it’s done, now this is the important part. So you don’t want to fuck this up, it’s the easy part too and if you mess it up, you’re going to loose all your files. So these are my drives, make sure you select the right one, select the wrong one and you format it, and you’re going to loose all your files. Just simple as that, just check the drives that you want, just remember not to get the wrong one.
So my drive is here, its one gigabyte so I select that and you can see this currently a fat 16 partition, now I want to format to NTFS so all I got to do is I right click on it and go down to format too. And these two are Linux partition, these are the old school fat partition but it is limited so you don’t want to use that.
NTFS is good because you can save a big file like more than 4 gigs and because they have a limit in fat 32 so NTFS is good, so we’re going to chose that. After we choose that click on apply up top here and it says that you agree – yes we do bitch and its doing its job and its done. So you close and now it’s updating. So you wait till it updates and that’s it. We’re done. See its in NTFS now.
The reason for you doing NTFS is because you don’t won’t have the restriction of the four gig, if your files is like over four gig, fat 32 is not good for you. Although fat 32 is – any computer can read that I think. So the only reason for NTFS is because if you have a USB stick and you go to – you know you use to put in your key chain or something and you go to another computer, chances are the inner computer is going to be Windows. And it is on windows they, can only read their own shit, they cannot read Linux shit.
So that’s why you want to use NTFS, mainly because you a large file and you want to compatible with Windows. That’s the only two reasons that you should use this. And that’s how you do it. If you want to convert to – or you want to format to another partition you could. It’s the same process so that’s it.
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