Re: USB Backup

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:16:22 -0500, Paul Thompson wrote:

I got a WD terabyte USB drive to backup my SuSE 11.2 system, but
unfortunately it's formated at NTSF.

NTFS surely?

If you do fdisk -l, do you see it listed as /dev/sd{some_letter}1

It mounts as /media/Elements, how do I reformat it as something useful?

You do not want to format the disk, but create a file system on the partition,
viz

mke2fs -j -L "WD_1TB-Disk1" -v /dev/sd{some_letter}1

[assuming that this is your first WD_1TB disk]

Or you could label it with some other name according to your needs
and feelings.


man mke2fs for other options
.

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