Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] External hard drives
--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor@uklinux.net> wrote:
On Friday 16 Jul 2004 23:09, you wrote:
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.... -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 00:50, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor@uklinux.net> wrote:
On Friday 16 Jul 2004 23:09, you wrote:
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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--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor@uklinux.net> wrote:
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
The "mount" command usually reveals what the underlying filesystem is. Hmm, ok. Un-mount it and re-mount it thus: mount -o gid=$GID,uid=$UID,defaults /dev/sda1 /some/mountpoint -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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