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Title: USB Drive
Post by: Laurent DINCLAUX on October 31, 2003, 08:03:59 AM

Just brought an usb external drive. Need to make two patition (one ext3 and one fat or ntfs) and I also need to have it automounted when it pluged in.

So here what I have done:
#modprobe sg
#modprobe ide-scsi
#modprobe usb-storage

Have to do that after every reboot so I can acces my drive using /dev/sda...
First problem :)

Partitionned whith fdisk:

Disque /dev/sda : 255 têtes, 63 secteurs, 19929 cylindres
Unités = cylindres sur 16065 * 512 octets

Périphérique Amorce    Début       Fin    Blocs   Id  Système
/dev/sda1             1     10000  80324968+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2         10001     19929  79754692+   7  Win95 FAT32

then:
#mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1     (very slow and sometimes hangs the sytem for few seconds)
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
#df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              78787248  73154628   1630432  98% /
/dev/md0                101018      8862     86940  10% /boot
none                    257180         0    257180   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1             39571244  10466176  27094940  28% /mnt/moreData
/dev/sda1            160032512 160032512         0 100% /mnt/sda1

Second problem: why do I have 160Go whereas I have two 80go partitions ??
If I try:
#mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda2
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/sda2: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock

Title: Re: USB Drive
Post by: grub on November 04, 2003, 04:27:06 AM

Why don't you look at http://www.linux-usb.org/