Re: [newbie] External hard drive

[David McDougal]

Remember that NTFS is read-only in linux (yes I know you can get around that somewhat - this is a newbie forum).... I would suggest copying the entire contents to your local hd and then formatting the usb drive in either ext3 or fat32.  IF you need to share this with a windows machine (arghhh why), then I would suggest FAT32.  Linux can read and write to a FAT32 drive.  If you do not then go all out and do a ext3 drive.  Once you are done with that, jsut move the data back.  Sucks, but it works.  I have 2 external resiferFS drives, and a FAT32 for my wife.  I can write to them all, and she can read my resiferFS drives, and write to the FAT32.

On 9/12/06, Owen Berio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a external USB hard drive formated with two NTFS partitions. Can
I use it to add additional files from my desktop Mandriva One
installation? When I go to the "configuration tool" it looks like it
will repartition, ovrerwrite, or worse yet reformat what is already on
it. Can I safely run the configuration tool?

The "Hardware" option in the "Control Center" recognizes it as :
Hard Drive sda
> Identification
> Vendor: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
>
> Description: USB-2.0 IDE Adapter
>
> Disk identifier: ST312002 6A
>
> Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))
>
> Bus identification
> Vendor ID: 1204
>
> Device ID: 26672
>
> Connection
> Bus: SCSI (USB) (3)
>
> Channel: 0
>
> Logical unit number: 0
>
> Device
> Old device file: /dev/sda
>
> New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
>
> Partitions
> Primary partitions: 1 (sda1)
>
> Misc
> Device USB ID: 3
>
> Geometry: 14589/255/63 (CHS)
>
> Disk controller: 0
>
> Module: usb-storage (usb-storage)



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