Re: [opensuse] can't connect to usb hard drive

John E. Perry wrote:

Ionut Vancea wrote:

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Hi,

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I have a 500G Seagate PATA hard drive connected to my hp dv6000 laptop ...

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:22 AM, John E. Perry wrote: there is nothing written in:

tail -f /var/log/messages

when you plug in, your external hdd?

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Nov 13 20:58:38 embelex kernel: sdb: unknown partition table

Some digging found fdisk, cfdisk, and gnu parted. All agree that there is no recognizable partition table on the drive. I'm beginning to suspect that I'm misremembering having worked with the disk; I bought it to replace one that died while I was on travel, and it turned out the motherboard had died. I guess I never did format the disk. So now I want to format it and use it as extra storage for my laptop while I'm deciding just what to do about the motherboard. So, I know about needing separate partitions for Windows, /, /home, and /var. And the swap partitions. I know many like to have a separate /boot partition. Is there a good reason for this (I know it was needed for antique bioses, but are there other reasons)? What other partitions might be useful? I have no need to preserve anything or be backward compatible with anything, so I'm open to anything useful. Are there any preferences for or arguments against any of the above partitioning programs? Are there other, better ones? More comprehensive disk building or management programs? Thanks again, Ionut. Looking forward to hearing from you all. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org