on your external HD while attempting to move it to the left and resize, and you're trying to get it back

12/9/2010 3:58:44 PM

ibtNTLB

12/9/2010 4:00:07 PM

trying to find the filesystem using testdisk, but it's going really slowly. if it continues at its current pace it'll be 24 hours from now before it finishes looking for partitions

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12/9/2010 4:04:16 PM

god damn i used to call myself a nerd but then i see some shit like this

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12/9/2010 4:18:52 PM

get data back

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12/9/2010 4:20:34 PM

^^don't act like you don't use ubuntu from time to time

10.04 worked great for me on this laptop, but 10.10 is giving me all kinds of troubles

12/9/2010 4:26:03 PM

i installed linux mint one time but then i realized that it was too much work since i don't program shit

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12/9/2010 4:28:23 PM

so i leave for my dep meeting with it scanning what i think is the proper lost partition looking for the root cluster to come back to it being frozen at like 32768/11434160 (0%)

12/9/2010 6:53:46 PM

EXTERNAL HD

NEVER FORGET

12/9/2010 6:57:12 PM

i could format a new file system on there and redownload the ~300 GB of various media on to it, but that'd take entirely too long.

12/9/2010 7:04:20 PM

scary

12/9/2010 7:05:31 PM

I use gparted for resizing only

12/9/2010 7:07:13 PM

Real fucking nerds woulda had that shit backed up. Epic fail.

12/9/2010 7:08:06 PM

didn't really see the point in getting another external HD to backup the external HD. still don't.

^^it did the resizing extremely quickly but for whatever reason it completely failed when it tried to move the data from the middle of the HD (where the old partition began) to the start of the HD (where the new partition began)

12/9/2010 7:18:41 PM

SUCCESS. now time to resize it and NOT lose my boot loader haha

12/9/2010 8:12:04 PM

every time i read this as "post here when gparent loses your file"

Silly Grandma, losing my files

12/9/2010 8:30:24 PM

^i lol'd

also this thing is taking forever. told it to first shrink the partition, then move it to the left, then grow it to drive capacity. its been 3 hours since it started and hasn't finished shrinking the partition yet...

12/9/2010 11:05:04 PM

Quote :

"god damn i used to call myself a nerd but then i see some shit like this"

ahahahahahahahahahahahhhhhaa

12/9/2010 11:08:35 PM

evan could save that data.

12/9/2010 11:16:06 PM

i know 300 GB is a lot of data, but does it really take that long to move crap on a HD?

Giving it about 10 more minutes to change status or I'm canceling it and finding a different disk manager.

12/9/2010 11:50:11 PM

I doubt your gparted has usb 2.0 drivers and is probably moving your data over usb->pci-> mem and then right back at ~12mbps. let's say it's 133mbps even, still gonna take a long time [(300,000/133)/60] minutes assuming no seek time and contiguous files (poor assumption)

12/10/2010 8:10:52 AM

Quote :

"10.04 worked great for me on this laptop, but 10.10 is giving me all kinds of troubles"

I'd like to hear more - 10.10 has been the heat on my T42p

Also, have you ever done this before? Shrinking a partition takes a retarded long time on the internal drive, I can't imagine doing it on an external. When it gets time for me to do something like that I ghost to an intermediate or copy all the files if it's not an OS to the NAS; format; repartition and copy back. WAY faster for me.

The only time I've seen that go fast is if you have a vast amount of empty space at the end of your drive (which is no longer the default config on most defrag processes, so you'll have to do that too.)

12/10/2010 9:02:49 AM

^^don't know if gparted was able to use those drivers, but disk manager on ubuntu was able to clock drive transfers at like 240 Mb/s

^I might need to defrag it, i haven't bothered since it's nothing more than a bunch of multimedia files i mostly use to watch things on my xbox/on tvs right now(so I don't have to have my laptop on to stream stuff)

I split my partition on the internal drive before, and while it wasn't as large as my external, it didn't take that long.

I was thinking about creating a new partition at the start of the drive, copying the files over on windows 7 where I know I can get the fast transfer rates, deleting the original partition, then extending it to the right the length of the drive. I think i have enough space because there used to be around a 350-400 GB NTFS partition on the left half I used for backups. I think I'll get that started after lunch.

And re: my 10.10 troubles, it might be because I'm running it off a thumbdrive right now instead of giving it a partition on my HD, but a couple things on my laptop it can't find drivers for that it found when i ran 10.04 about 6 months ago like Bluetooth and the media controls. It also seems to have bad/generic drivers for things like my video card (reallllllllyyyy choppy video play back, and it rolled over and moved half the screen into no mans land when i decided to plug in my hdmi cable) and touchpad. Lots of apps are crashing, including gparted leading to me making this thread. Oddly enough the crash reporter has even crashed.

12/10/2010 11:17:12 AM

Finally got it to somewhat quickly do what i wanted it to. Made a FAT32 partition at the start of the drive that was large enough to fit all the files i wanted. Transfered all the files using explorer, deleted the old partition and grew the new one the length of the drive. stuff in gparted took a total of like 30 seconds, and the file transfer took like 6-7 hours. (don't think it was using usb2.0 drivers for whatever reason)

of course i think the partition i recovered before didn't have like the last 17 files i put in it, so i had to redownload those, but i'd rather do that than redownload the 300 GB

12/11/2010 7:35:09 PM

okay, BigEgo, i have to admit that your nerdy talk is turning me on.

12/12/2010 4:41:14 PM

i need to find more nerdy things i feel like doing in ubuntu

and i want to learn how to develop/mod roms in android, but i'm not sure where to start.

12/12/2010 5:10:04 PM