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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