External Hard drive: Maxtor 5000 DV 120GB

enk0d · 06-06-2003, 10:25 AM

Well if that is the case what is the command needed to format it using fdisk because i haven't been able to get it to work

enk0d · 06-06-2003, 10:44 AM

ok i was able to get it formatted and made a new partition so now this is what it looks like:

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Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122941341696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1     14946 120053713+  83  Linux
 
Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            14      2304  18402457+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3          2305      2434   1044225   82  Linux swap

now this is thing it is still telling me the same thing need ot specify file system type when i try to mount it using the following:

Code:

 
mount -a /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd

enk0d · 06-06-2003, 10:48 AM

I tried using:

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mount -Linux /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd

but it said no such partition found

michaelk · 06-06-2003, 11:15 AM

Once you changed the partition type did you use mke2fs to format? If so then the filesystem type is ext2. If you used tune2fs -j then it is ext3.

Try mounting as root
mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd

Add in fstab
If you want to mount at boot
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd auto auto,user 1 2
If not
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd auto noauto,user 1 2

BTW the -a option says mount all filesystems in the /etc/fstab.