Heya,
I recently purchased an external USB hard drive to use for back-up purposes.
I plugged in the HD and loaded up my server manager and looked at USB Disks. It detecting my USB drive and named it /dev/sda1 with a FS type of NFTS.
I managed to use fdisk to remove the default partition and I created a new one, then saved. I got an error, but ignored it (this could be my problem).
I then tried to format the partition using this command:
mkfs.vfat -n backup /dev/sda1
I refreshed my USB Disks page and my drive changed from NFTS to vfat. I then used USB Disks to mount the HD to /media/usbdisks.
Everything mounted fine, and when I use 'mount' in the console, it reads:
/dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev)
I assumed everything was configured properly and then tried to run a test backup using DAR2. When I did, I got an email to my admin account with the following message:
Connecting to /media/usbdisk
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
Any help would be appreciated.... thanks!
I also tried changing to ext3 with no luck.
Matt
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