Merge Partitions on External Hard Disk [solved]

otter · 2008-01-20 22:30:55

Hi - I have an external hard disk formatted in FAT32 that has three partitions sdb1, sdb2 and sdb3 (it used to be inside a computer) - I'd ideally like to merge the partitions to make one partition... Any help would be much appreciated.

Last edited by otter (2009-01-26 19:47:54)

ProzacR · 2008-01-20 22:55:51

pacman -S gparted

Ant then use gparted as root.

barebones · 2008-01-21 00:04:43

From my experience, if the hard drive is even marginally big (~160 GB) it can take a very long time to merge partitions. I lost a bunch of data once when I tried to stop an operation that was going to take 80+ hours. I personally would go the route of backing up the data to DVD's and then formatting the whole drive. Your mileage may vary though.

otter · 2008-02-02 10:04:40

Thanks very much guys - gparted worked like a dream. Terrifying program!

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#1 2008-01-20 22:30:55

Merge Partitions on External Hard Disk [solved]

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Re: Merge Partitions on External Hard Disk [solved]

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Re: Merge Partitions on External Hard Disk [solved]

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Re: Merge Partitions on External Hard Disk [solved]

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