mount usb drive

larryalk · 05-03-2010, 10:47 PM

My old Slackware drive has data that I need to transfer to a USB backup drive.

The Slackware drive is IDE with Slackware version 9.1.0. It needs to be retired.

The USB drive is formatted HPFS.

What should I use in /dev/???/ to mount the USB drive?

Larry

Gnuru-the-1 · 05-04-2010, 01:58 AM

sda, sda1, sda2 ore something as long as you have mounted it :-)

Dont forget to be root..

catkin · 05-04-2010, 02:01 AM

Try the blkid command.

koloth · 05-04-2010, 06:10 AM

I wonder, is HPFS supported by the default kernel? It is an odd choice for a usb drive...

dive · 05-04-2010, 07:07 AM

I would get that HPFS off and reformat to something sane, unless you really need it.

ChrisAbela · 05-04-2010, 07:19 AM

Try
Connect the USB drive then

$ cat /proc/partitions
or
$ su -
# fdisk -l