On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote: > I don't know how to set up the portable hard drive (external one). > > I failed to drag (copy) things into it. > > it showed me, > Error opening file '/media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/fulltext.pdf': > Permission denied > > but I can drag things out. > > :/media$ ls -l FreeAgent\ GoFlex\ Drive/ > total 36172 > -rw------- 1 lina lina 170 Jan 11 2010 Autorun.inf > -rw------- 1 lina lina 65643 Mar 18 2010 GoFlex.ico > -rw------- 2 lina lina 36806329 Feb 16 2011 Mac Installer.dmg > drwx------ 1 lina lina 0 Aug 10 20:01 Seagate > -rw------- 1 lina lina 156312 Jan 16 2009 Setup.exe > drwx------ 1 lina lina 0 Aug 10 20:01 System Volume Information > drwx------ 1 lina lina 4096 Aug 10 20:01 UserGuides
(...) Run "mount" and put here the result. > I tried chmod a+x and a+w still not work. > > and once newly plugged into, it showed as before (unchanged). > > There are some .dmg and .exe which I do not plan to try and install in > respective OS. > > Can I remove them all? Those are files for managing the drive unit in windows and mac, I guess. They can be drivers and/or backup utilities you are not going to use in linux. Make a full copy of all of them so you can safely remove. > how do I reformat it? Using gparted, parted, cfdisk... as usual :-) > Thanks for any suggestions, (no need very intelligent set up, just basic > one, so I can use it to backup.) Then use a most suitable filesystem format, such as ext3/ext4/reiserfs/ xfs... YMMV. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
