[NTLUG:Discuss] USB External storage only

[terry]

When you plug a USB drive in, a pop-up window should come up  and ask what
it is you want to do with it,   otherwise, you should find an icon on the
desktop for it and when you click on it, the drive will be mounted and the
file manager will automatically show you it's contents.

Note: If you intend to share this drive [some day] with a MS Windows system,
you should format it with vfat filesystem, otherwise, the MS Windows machine
will not be able to read or write to it,  (unless you install some special
software).

In other words, it's no different from the way a thumb-drive or
flash-memory-drive or a digital camera works.  It is the same behaviour.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Allen Meyers <texas.chef94 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Chris here is a corrected terminal after creating the
> partition. Still waiting to reboot. Do not want to encounter error 15
> again. Please advise if time permits
> Allen
>
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> allen at allen-desktop:~$ mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
> fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/allen/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=allen)
> allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
> [sudo] password for allen:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000c21c5
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4708    37816978+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            4709        4865     1261102+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            4709        4865     1261071   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x5b6ac646
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       19457   156288321   83  Linux
> allen at allen-desktop:~$
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> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 07:35 -0600, Allen Meyers wrote:
> > ....
> >> allen at allen-desktop:~$ fdisk -1
> >> fdisk: invalid option -- '1'
> >
> > A ONE is not a lowercase L.
> > Try lowercase L.  If you need this option to work.
> >
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