[Linux] Using USB external hard drive

[Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio]

It makes no sense to me to download a CD ISO, burn it, and boot off it, muck about and risk your internal drives partitions when you can do the research, and perform any changes in ten minutes without even rebooting.

Chip


On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:39:54PM -0400, Jason Alazawi wrote:
> Alternatively, you can download an ISO file called 'gnome partition editor'
> and boot off that.  Format the disk to be Fat 32 reboot your machine and you
> will see the HDD (it will now act as a jump drive).  you can then edit your
> fstab.config file and get the to mount automatically when your computer
> boots up (if your planning on using your segate as a backup drive).  If you
> just want a really large "jump drive" then you don't need to edit your
> fstab.config file.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> On 7/24/07, Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio <chipper@llamas.net> wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:23:20AM -0400, kerry blalock wrote:
> >>I purchased a seagate USB HD this week end and am having trouble using
> >>it. When booting the system, a message appears that it is loading the
> >>SCSI driver. Looking under /media, I can see the drive, but not sure how
> >>to mount it so that I can use.
> >>
> >>Does it need to be formatted? If so, how do I format it?
> >>
> >>No icon appears on desktop like a scandisk unit does.
> >>
> >
> >Check the following commands for clues:
> >
> >Boot up, then plug the unit in.
> >
> >dmesg | tail 20
> >mount
> >
> >
> >the first will give you console messages and give you a clue about the
> >device
> >name.  Then check and see if the device is mounted.  If dmesg does not
> >show
> >that is recognized existing partitions (for example, it sees sda, then
> >lists
> >sda1, sda2, sda3) you may need to partition and format it with fdisk and
> >the
> >mkfs of your choice.
> >
> >Chip
> >
> >
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