Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

On 9/6/2010 9:22 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> Hi Celelar
>
> Just going through
> 'applications->Debian->applications->system->administration' and started
> up 'gnome partition editor'. It showed me that its file system is ntsf;
> its mountpoint is /mnt; its label is IOMEGA HDD; total size is 1.82TB
> and I have used 61.37 GB.
> It is mounted -- but not visible on the desktop. I first used it to
> backup my win7 drive -- I wonder if I were to repartition it would it
> then be visible to the desktop? The data that is on the drive is just a
> backup of my win7 and of no real concern at this time.
>
> John


It may help a little to change the label to something not containing a 
whitespace character.  This may not be the source of your problem, but 
it could be a cause of other problems.  The architects of the *nixes 
never really planned for spaces inside file names, I think.  You can use 
them, but some programs may be confused by them.  Better to avoid it by 
using hyphens, dots, and underscores.