Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Per Inge Oestmoen wrote:
what gives "fdisk /dev/sda" (with the disk plugged in :-) This: linux-k9na:/home/siberia # fdisk /dev/sdc Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Assuming you know the disk is empty, you now continue with creating a partition - for instance just one primary taking up the whole disk. Then you create a filesystem on it. Next you time you unplug/plug the drives, openSUSE will ask if you want to mount it automagically.
But that is precisely what is impossible.
I go into the partitioner of YaST, and the disk is recognized. I choose to make one large partion, and to format with FAT since the disk is to be accessed by a number of different operating systems apart from my own Linux machines.
Then I get this following error message:
Which says something about a problem and error -1013 when trying to set the disk label to MSDOS. Like others have suggested, a 1Tb FAT filesystem is probably not a good idea, but it might work, I don't know.
I then choose OK, and go back to the main YaST screen, where YaST claims that my disk is 2 Tb instead of 1 Tb which is the real size. I can go no further.
Next step is to 1) report the problem (bugzilla.novell.com) and 2) create the filesystem manually. Assuming your drive is still /dev/sdc: fdisk /dev/sdc delete all existing partitions. create new primary, use all the space. toggle partition type to 'b' = W95 FAT32. (I'm not sure about 'b'). w(rite) new partition table mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1 mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org