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Title: Trying to backup to USB HD, can't get around FS type
Post by: bldgfac on January 08, 2008, 09:34:37 PM

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

Title: Re: Trying to backup to USB HD, can't get around FS type
Post by: NickCritten on January 10, 2008, 11:42:46 AM

I guess your easiest solution would be to connect it to a windows PC to format to FAT32 first.

Nick

Title: Re: Trying to backup to USB HD, can't get around FS type
Post by: dmay on January 10, 2008, 05:32:12 PM

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-usb-disk-howto.htm