[SLE] Need help mounting a USB disk drive

From: Greg Wallace (jgregw_at_acsalaska.net)
Date: 09/15/04

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:44:54 -0800

         I have a Maxtor USB external disk drive device which I am currently
    using on my Windows machine. I have it formatted into 2 separate
    partitions, each of which is currently formatted as NTFS. I would like to
    be able to move that device between my Windows machine and my Linux machine.
    The idea would be to convert one of those partitions into either an EXT2
    partition or a FAT partition and use it on my Linux machine. I'd like to be
    able to read and write to it from both my Linux and my Windows machine, but
    I, of course, definitely want read-write on the Linux side. Between EXT2
    and FAT, whichever would offer the most flexibility as far as moving back
    and forth between machines would be how I'd want to go.
         I have never used a USB device on my Linux machine. Would I just need
    to create a high-level directory entry for use as a mount point and issue
    some sort of "mount ." command? How do you address usb devices (I. e., how
    do you obtain the handle that you would use in the mount command)? All of
    this would be brand new to me. Since there are 2 partitions on the disk, I
    suppose the mount command would have to have something in it to tell Linux
    which of the two partitions to mount. Also, should I delete the NTFS
    partition I want to use on Linux from the Windows side before I try to mount
    it on the Linux side and then re-add the partition on the Linux side, or
    would it be better to go ahead and mount that NTFS partition on the Linux
    side and then simply re-format it as EXT2 or FAT? Lots of questions here, I
    know. All of this would be brand new to me. Any direction greatly
    appreciated.

    Yours truly,
    Greg Wallace

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