| bkm | Unit193: thx! not that i will remember, but it _is_ possible! | 00:25 |
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| TurtleRr | New to *nix, but basically I'd like to completely erase a hard drive (plugged into an external enclosure) including "removing the GPT partition table" | 02:55 |
| TurtleRr | the drives are seagate 3TB drives, and are only seen as ~780gb when I run partitionmanager | 02:56 |
| holstein | i would use a gparted live CD.. or gparted from an ubuntu live CD.. unless you want it zero'd for some reason | 02:56 |
| TurtleRr | is there a hardware limitation possibly with the enclosure? | 02:57 |
| TurtleRr | I pulled it out of an external 1.5TB drive, so showing 800gb seems funny | 02:57 |
| TurtleRr | holstein: I can't do it from within lubuntu? | 02:57 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: i use a live CD.. could be a lubuntu live CD | 02:58 |
| holstein | you wont be able to erase the hard drive you are using | 02:58 |
| holstein | you could blow out a partition, but they'll always be some partition you cant wipe | 02:59 |
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| TurtleRr | i just want to erase the drive that is connected via USB | 03:07 |
| TurtleRr | not the OS drive | 03:07 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: i would open gpart | 03:07 |
| holstein | gparted* | 03:07 |
| holstein | gksudo gparted TurtleRr | 03:07 |
| TurtleRr | gksudo ? | 03:08 |
| TurtleRr | is that different from sudo ? | 03:08 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: yeah.. its sudo for graphical applications | 03:08 |
| holstein | !sudo | 03:08 |
| ubottu | sudo is a command to run command-line programs with superuser privileges ("root") (also see !cli). Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo for more information. For graphical applications see !gksu (GNOME, Xfce), or !kdesudo (KDE). If you're unable to execute commands with sudo see: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/fixsudo | 03:08 |
| TurtleRr | "unable to locate theme engine in module_path" | 03:09 |
| Unit193 | http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know the difference. | 03:09 |
| TurtleRr | can i install using the synaptic package manager? | 03:10 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: gparted? its in the repos... install it how you like.. synaptic works well | 03:11 |
| TurtleRr | hrmm so gparted seems to see the same thing | 03:12 |
| TurtleRr | recognizes drive as 746.52gb | 03:12 |
| holstein | what is it?.. are there several partitions? | 03:12 |
| holstein | run in a terminal.. sudo fdisk -l | 03:13 |
| TurtleRr | it doesnt recognize any of them | 03:13 |
| holstein | you can paste that if you like | 03:13 |
| TurtleRr | so /dev/sdb: 801.6gb | 03:15 |
| TurtleRr | system GPT | 03:15 |
| TurtleRr | the drive is from a NAS so the software RAID may not be readable, I just wanted to erase the drive and specifically the gpt table | 03:16 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: what RAID? | 03:16 |
| TurtleRr | I believe RAID 1 | 03:17 |
| holstein | thats likely the issue.. | 03:17 |
| holstein | i would take the drives out, or maintain it like the manufacturer suggests | 03:17 |
| holstein | OR, just wipe it as is.. its proably doing redundant storage | 03:17 |
| TurtleRr | yeah I just want to erase them so the NAS reinstalls its firmware and sets them up again | 03:17 |
| TurtleRr | how can I wipe the gpt tables ? | 03:18 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: in the menu in gparted | 03:18 |
| TurtleRr | "create partition table" ? | 03:18 |
| TurtleRr | so just create for example a DOS partition table? | 03:18 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: i dont know... depends on what you have, and what you want | 03:19 |
| TurtleRr | i guess my question is, if I only see 800gb of the drive, and as I understand the GPT partition table is at the end of the drive physically | 03:19 |
| TurtleRr | is there a hardware limitation stopping gparted from seeing the whole contents/ | 03:19 |
| TurtleRr | would booting from a live usb help? | 03:20 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: if you dont know for certain, i bet its redundant | 03:23 |
| holstein | thats what i would expect to see... | 03:23 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: it wont be gparted.. it could be the driver support.. but it'll likely just not see the device | 03:23 |
| holstein | i would look at the manufactures information on how you are expected to format or wipe the drives | 03:24 |
| holstein | i would either do that, or emulate the process | 03:24 |
| TurtleRr | will give it a shot, thanks! | 03:26 |
| holstein | TurtleRr: sure.. we'll talk about emulating that process when you find it, if you need :) | 03:27 |
| Waynes | I want to make my second screen work but the AMD Catalyst Control Center wants me to start it with administrative rights in order to fiddle with these settings and I don't know the name of the program to start it from command line. | 14:00 |
| Platypus-Man | yesterday I tried installing Ubuntu desktop edition 64-bit on a PC, but after filling out the info in the "who are you"-setup page, I can't hit continue... waiting for all the files to copy didin't help, and today I tried downloading 64-bit with torrent to make sure md5sum was okay, and also tried 32-bit torrent - but I can't get past this step... any tips? | 16:05 |
| Dice-Man | hi | 17:07 |
| Dice-Man | i solved my ssh problem by looking at auth.log | 17:07 |
| Dice-Man | there was a problem with the listen address | 17:08 |
| Dice-Man | i solved it then sshd automatically start on booting | 17:08 |
| bkm | /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock/gnome_keyring_hibernate in gconf-editor <- is there a lubuntu equivalent method of accessing this file/whatever so that ssh-agent sessions will survive a hibernation? | 17:24 |
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| foolinsd | hi everyone! | 22:34 |
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