I have been a T-Mobile customer for about 5 years. My first phone with them was the Motorola RAZR. I had always been happy with my plan, so I never upgraded phones through them. Instead, I have used phones I purchased second-hand and swapped SIM cards. About a year ago, I bought a used iPhone 2G (Edge) and unlocked/jailbroke it. I had been happily using that along with the T-Zones ($5.99) Internet package that I was grandfathered in with. For the most part, everything worked great.

Santa brought me a new Western Digital 1TB external hard drive for Christmas this year. So of course, the first thing I had to do was plug it in and reformat it from the default FAT32 filesystem to ext3. There are many obvious reasons for doing this, most importantly large file management and fragmentation issues.

So here's the steps I took. First, unwrapped it and plugged it in. Easy. Ubuntu recognized and mounted it. I then fired up gParted, which is available in most major distributions' package managers.