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[Rodney <question77586@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77586 on gparted in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+question/77586

    Status: Answered => Open

Rodney is still having a problem:
I've been  trying to understand this with little success.  Again, here is the output of fdisk and I think the system is seeing both disks.  Is that not so?  Am I interpreting it right that 
the last entry (/dev/sdb1) is the smaller disk?  If so, I want to reformat it to be used to store data on that I will want to physically remove from the system by removing the drawer that the hard drive is mounted in.  I'm not sure how to do that.  Do I reformat to a specific type file or ???.  Do I have to mount that drive then so that Ubuntu sees it when I go to “Place>Computer”?  If so, how.  Thanks for putting up with my ignorance.   Rodney


george@george-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 34.2 GB, 34219745280 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4160 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x38ee38ee


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *           1        2081    16715601    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2            2082        4160    16699567+   5  Extended

/dev/sda5            2082        4067    15952513+  83  Linux

/dev/sda6            4068        4160      746991   82  Linux swap /
Solaris


Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes

129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 952 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdb1   *           1         953     1966064    6  FAT16

Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:

     phys=(960, 128, 32) logical=(952, 71, 32)

george@george-desktop:~$

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