Firewire/USB external 400 GB drive under Fedora

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Fri Mar 18 13:25:58 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 14:46 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 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.

Ah, not a bad idea.
One problem, I have is that the disk appears under the root file system
(i.e. "/")

====== snippet from my /etc/fstab =====================================
/dev/sda1               /media/ieee1394disk     ext3   \
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
=======================================================================

[williams at lion media]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       34G   24G  7.5G  77% /
/dev/hda2             494M   68M  401M  15% /boot
none                 1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm


Of course, when I unzip/untar a large file (i.e. in this case 5.6GB)
I ran out of space on the root file partition.  What is going on here?

I guess I need another partition.



Thanks,
Ernest








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