I saw that youtube video Liam made to show people how to reclaim SD card space with gparted. Well that software may work great for a small SD card but don"t ever use it for a 3TB HDD. I had never used it before, I usually use the built in junk in windows for NTFS volumes and Clonezillia for anything else.
Right now I"m working on my NAS, trying to get a little more performance out of it. It used to be a Twonky server built into my router. But I couldn"t get more than 6MB /sec out of the router and most days were in the range of 3MB / sec. So I bought a Pogoplug series 4 wiped the stock install off it and put Arch Linux on it. Not being one to leave good enough alone I decided that I wanted to make space for a Linux swap on the USB 3.0 HDD. So I fired up gparted live because I had never tried it before. Started it on clearing me 1GB for me to make a Linux Swap, and went to bed. That was two days agao and it is still going with 23 hours left on the operation. The first problem I had was that gparted wasn"t able to read the drive on the USB 3.0 port, and I should have seen this as a warning and stopped right there. But instead I plugged it into a USB 2.0 port and figured well it will have to be done by the time I get up 10 hours from now. Nope its still ticking away 16 MB at a time.
I should have just backed the data up and destroyed the partitions and started from scratch and copied the data back. Here it has been 2 days and my gaming rig has been tied up so that I can get a measly 1GB swap. The nice fellows that made this live CD couldn"t have included a couple games, or maybe some drivers for wireless adapters? I"m dieing to play some Skyrim or LOL.
I"m a big enough jackass as it is and now I"m sitting here getting all my work done with an iPad and a bluetooth KB which makes me feel like a complete d-bag. End rant.
Re: gparted how do I hate thee?
I feel your pain. I punted Ubuntu off my netbook a couple of weeks ago and went back to single boot. I decided that I absolutely couldn't live without the hard drive space lost to the Linux partitions so I booted from a pen drive and started to shuffle things around (there are system and data NTFS partitions on here as well..)
It took hours and this HD is tiny compared to yours. Not the end of the world maybe, but since moving to the new gaff this is my only interwebz machine (I'm rationing myself…)
I did have Sudoku to keep me occupied though.
It took hours and this HD is tiny compared to yours. Not the end of the world maybe, but since moving to the new gaff this is my only interwebz machine (I'm rationing myself…)
I did have Sudoku to keep me occupied though.
Re: gparted how do I hate thee?
3 days and 4 nights in total and the drive is 30 min from being done. My computer will finally be released from being heald hostage. Then I get to hook it to my NAS and decide if it was worth it. There were definatly times were I thought about just stopping it and corrupting all my data just so I could get the use of my computer back. But then I would have to re-encode all my DVDs and BluRays again so I just sucked it up and went without for a couple days.
I started all this so I could understand Arch a little better so I could write a primer on making a R-Pi NAS when I got my board and right now I'm kinda wishing that I just waited instead of jumping the gun. That tutorial will still get written, but it may be a moot because the guys at Arch are working on some killer stuff. Once PlugUI gets refined it will be just a matter of firing up your web browser and clicking here and there.
I started all this so I could understand Arch a little better so I could write a primer on making a R-Pi NAS when I got my board and right now I'm kinda wishing that I just waited instead of jumping the gun. That tutorial will still get written, but it may be a moot because the guys at Arch are working on some killer stuff. Once PlugUI gets refined it will be just a matter of firing up your web browser and clicking here and there.
Re: gparted how do I hate thee?
regarding gparted, my advice is to never use the move/resize feature. gparted works blazing fast for formatting and reformatting even on netbooks, but resizing/moving can be very painful, and I guess that's the way it is for an operation that involves so much data. When i want to do a little bit rearrangement on my laptop's hdd i usually just back up my essential files and go ahead to reformat the hard drive and install the system again. Even better, i usually wait till a new version of my distro comes out, so i can upgrade my system at the same time.