Re: External USB hard drive question
debian@phildobbin.com wrote:
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> Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive
> mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up
> drive formatted UFS?
The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to
already have a partition table that contains a single partition,
/dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file
systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - which
does not use windows partition table formats (which linux does use), so
you may need to use fdisk or cfdisk.
You can format /dev/sda1 just like any other partition or device.
something similar to the following should work:
mkfs.ext3 -j /dev/sda1
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