Maxtor One Touch III with Fedora Core

[Stuart Sears]

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linux wrote:
> Just got a new Maxtor One Touch III.
> 
> Plugged in the A/C
> Plugged in the USB
> Got the New drive deteced message box.
> Selected open in new Window
> 
> Got an error box which said "invalid filesystem type"
> 
> I want to use this drive to store my subversion repository.  What steps
> to I need to take to make this work?
> 
> Do I need to reformat the drive to ext3?  Do I need to modify my fstab?

as andy said, it may be formatted to NTFS. unusual, but not too surprising.
to find out which device it is, try
fdisk -l (as root)
it should appear as /dev/sdX (where X is a letter)
and will probably contain partitions Maybe more than one.
you can freely repartition it if you need to.

you should not need to change anything in fstab at all

does the onetouch III have some kind of encryption feature?

Regards

Stuart
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