You can format an external hard drive in Ubuntu using the Gnome Partition Editor. It provides a graphical interface to simplify formatting and resizing hard drive ...
Then, go to Dash, type gparted and click on GParted partition editor. In the window that opens, right-click on the external hard drive and select Format. Next, choose the file system with which you ...
I have an external hdd (1TB) that has 4 partitions, all are formatted to hfs+. I want to format one of them to an NTFS so that I can have a windows read/write drive. I am using g-parted in Ubuntu as ...