Hooray. Was trying to organize all data on my external harddrive yesterday. It had three volumes:

  • Aroodland, my archive with installers, anime, music and other nice stuff.
  • Backup, with manual backups I make everytime I change or format my computer.
  • Vista, the only NTFS partition, because I wanted to run Windows Vista in a virtual machine.

The reason I used FAT32 is because I bought the harddrive before linux had good support for NTFS. Very well, I wanted to organize, so this is what happened:

  1. I converted Backup to NTFS… If I only have one FAT32-volume, Aroodland may show up on my PS2.
  2. I tried to merge Backup and Vista.
  3. For some reason, it didn’t work.
  4. All my backups were gone. Wonderful, many years of saved crap, just gone.
  5. I found a file-recovery software which worked.
  6. Restored 30500 files.
  7. Renamed Backup to Desuland, since I will have installed software and stuff on it from now on too.
  8. Tried to move some space from Aroodland to Desuland. It didn’t work for some reason.
  9. I guess it’s because I never defragged Aroodland, so I’m running Auslogics Disk Defrag right now (in the middle of the night).

Hopefully everything will be working after the defrag and resizing. 250 gb isn’t really that much when you’re talking about files, but when you want to organize and defrag it, it’s almost too much.