Re: [SLE] Need help mounting a USB disk drive

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 09/15/04

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    Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:04:42 -0400
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    Greg Wallace wrote:
    > 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.

    Use FAT, so that you can use it in any computer. Linux handles FAT
    quite well, but NTFS writing is "experimental" i.e. flakey.

    > 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.

    I wouldn't bother with 2 partitions. Just make it FAT and let it go at
    that. SuSE 9.1 will automount the drive. 

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