I just got a LaCie 1Tb USB drive. I want to delete their 10Mb NTFS partition then create one 1Tb EXT4 partition. When I DiskUtility I get the following error when I try to delete the NTFS partition: Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=400886272 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=1000204886016) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 400886272, size 10484736, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected got it got disk got partition - part->type=4 refusing to delete a protected partition If I just try and create an EXT4 partition on the remaining 990Gb I get the following error: Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, start=411371008, size=999793515008, type=0x83 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=1000204886016) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 400886272, size 10484736, type 0x0c) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected containing partition table scheme = 0 got it got disk new partition Error: Too many primary partitions. ped_disk_add_partition() failed What can I do here???? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
