On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote: > >> I don't know how to set up the portable hard drive (external one). >> >> I failed to drag (copy) things into it. >> >> it showed me, >> Error opening file '/media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/fulltext.pdf': >> Permission denied >> >> but I can drag things out. >> >> :/media$ ls -l FreeAgent\ GoFlex\ Drive/ >> total 36172 >> -rw------- 1 lina lina 170 Jan 11 2010 Autorun.inf >> -rw------- 1 lina lina 65643 Mar 18 2010 GoFlex.ico >> -rw------- 2 lina lina 36806329 Feb 16 2011 Mac Installer.dmg >> drwx------ 1 lina lina 0 Aug 10 20:01 Seagate >> -rw------- 1 lina lina 156312 Jan 16 2009 Setup.exe >> drwx------ 1 lina lina 0 Aug 10 20:01 System Volume Information >> drwx------ 1 lina lina 4096 Aug 10 20:01 UserGuides > > (...) > > Run "mount" and put here the result.
It's surprisingly cool, when I tried to mount it on another computer which is sid one, it works, I can copy and paste and also no problems create new folder. and the mount information is different: /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions) seems I don't need reformate? > >> I tried chmod a+x and a+w still not work. >> >> and once newly plugged into, it showed as before (unchanged). >> >> There are some .dmg and .exe which I do not plan to try and install in >> respective OS. >> >> Can I remove them all? > > Those are files for managing the drive unit in windows and mac, I guess. > They can be drivers and/or backup utilities you are not going to use in > linux. Make a full copy of all of them so you can safely remove. > >> how do I reformat it? > > Using gparted, parted, cfdisk... as usual :-) > >> Thanks for any suggestions, (no need very intelligent set up, just basic >> one, so I can use it to backup.) > > Then use a most suitable filesystem format, such as ext3/ext4/reiserfs/ > xfs... YMMV. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.03.10.25...@gmail.com > > -- Best Regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAG9cJm=7vwxsw5yghftszfpssofwjzxgb2oycj9c795yrvo...@mail.gmail.com
