Firewire/USB external 400 GB drive under Fedora
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Thu Mar 17 13:46:04 UTC 2005
tor, 17.03.2005 kl. 05.23 skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> Hi,
>
> When I opened the box for my external USB/Firewire disk drive, I
> discovered NTFS. (Ah fooey) My kernel does not support NTFS.
>
> Can I just reformat the external storage device directly under Fedora?
>
>
> Here is the error I get when trying to mount the file system:
> =================================================================
> mount /media/New_Volume/
> mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
> =================================================================
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ernest
I would guess you could. Personally, i would recomend using vfat, as it
won't give you any permissions trouble when you move the disk around
between differend computers.
"mkfs.vfat /dev/sd??" that is.
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