Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] External hard drives

On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 00:50, Thomas Adam wrote:

--- Paul Taylor wrote:

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On Friday 16 Jul 2004 23:09, you wrote:

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mount /dev/foo -o defaults /somewhere

I did this and something similar just after I wrote. It now reads the drive but will not write to it?

What filesystem is it using. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/foo", where "/dev/foo" is the partition you're mounting....

Sorry Thomas, I had to get some sleep at 11.30 :) The disk has some fat stuff on it I assume as they have been using it at school and I can read this. However, the -l command does not reveal the fs as far as I can see: krell4:~ # ls -l /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2004-04-06 14:27 /dev/sda1

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