Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table that contains a single partition, /dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - wh

Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread Arafangion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive > mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up > drive formatted UFS? The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table th

External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
Hi, all. I've recently installed Sarge on an old Pentium II machine via CD/Network as a test box to evaluate the system and am extremely impressed. I installed the Desktop environment and am using KDE 3.3 as my desktop. I've painlessly got it entered onto my LAN (sharing with OS X), got