Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote:

> I don't know how to set up the portable hard drive (external one).
> 
> I failed to drag (copy) things into it.
> 
> it showed me,
> Error opening file '/media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/fulltext.pdf':
> Permission denied
> 
> but I can drag things out.
> 
> :/media$ ls -l FreeAgent\ GoFlex\ Drive/ 
> total 36172
> -rw------- 1 lina lina      170 Jan 11  2010 Autorun.inf 
> -rw------- 1 lina lina    65643 Mar 18  2010 GoFlex.ico 
> -rw------- 2 lina lina 36806329 Feb 16  2011 Mac Installer.dmg 
> drwx------ 1 lina lina        0 Aug 10 20:01 Seagate 
> -rw------- 1 lina lina   156312 Jan 16  2009 Setup.exe 
> drwx------ 1 lina lina        0 Aug 10 20:01 System Volume Information 
> drwx------ 1 lina lina     4096 Aug 10 20:01 UserGuides

(...)

Run "mount" and put here the result.
 
> I tried chmod a+x and a+w still not work.
> 
> and once newly plugged into, it showed as before (unchanged).
> 
> There are some .dmg and .exe which I do not plan to try and install in
> respective OS.
> 
> Can I remove them all?

Those are files for managing the drive unit in windows and mac, I guess. 
They can be drivers and/or backup utilities you are not going to use in 
linux. Make a full copy of all of them so you can safely remove.

> how do I reformat it?

Using gparted, parted, cfdisk... as usual :-)

> Thanks for any suggestions, (no need very intelligent set up, just basic
> one, so I can use it to backup.)

Then use a most suitable filesystem format, such as ext3/ext4/reiserfs/
xfs... YMMV.
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón