Add a new partition to your system

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:26:00 +0100

Imagine you buy a new hard drive. Here’s a few easy steps to create a partition in that drive, and a mount point, so you can have that partition available to you at boot time.

If you have an easy way to add a new partition in your system, let me know.

I usually use GParted to create the partition.

Add a partition

Just follow the following screenshots to create a partition in GParted. Make sure you choose a Label for your partition. In this example is Storage.

Formating a partition in NTFS

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:30:00 +0000

If you need to format a partition in NTFS and you are using GParted, just install ntfsprogs.

Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
Search for ntfsprogs
Rigth click and Mark for Installation

That’s it. You should see only greens in the NTFS line in GParted > Show Features.

GParted on paapereira.xyz

Add a new partition to your system

Add a partition

Formating a partition in NTFS