Topic: help with USB drive and backup (DAR)

[AidansDad]

from all I've read, USB drives are supposed to automount on version 7 and show up as /media/usbdisk.  

I plugged in a maxtor and it shows up as /media/New_Volume which is OK I guess, except when I copy files there they don't actually copy onto the device.

I'd like to keep the drive fat32 so that if the server fails or data is lost, it can be plugged into a windows machine and the data is accessible.

I'm thoroughly confused and I thought this would be like a 10 minute operation, yet I've spent almost 4 days on and off on this.  it's driving me bonkers.

I'm pretty sure I'm using the latest release.

any help is appreciated.

[AidansDad]

nevermind.  I'm a dumba$$.  I've been fighting with this, and never bothered to look to see that the fs on the external was ntfs  

[pfloor]

"Automount" is a very mis-used term.  When you attach the drive it will do everything EXCEPT actually mount the drive.  To access the drive you will have to issue:

# mount /media/<device>
or
# mount /media/<volume-name> (if you have named the volume)

Maxtor drives work great except you have to wipe and re-format them as SME does not read NTFS file systems.