mounting extenal usb drive (40GB ) 1

[bonsky]

Anyone can help me? i am currently using fedora core3, and i am trying to mount my external hard usb drive to grab some files. It is formatted as ntfs as i am using it to store data to my winXP. So , iwant to access some of the files now. I tried some tricks ive read.. but i really cannot figure it out. Hope you bear with me and i wanna know how to do this thing? Also, is there any sw for linux to do auto mount of this external drives?

thanks?

 

[zeland]

If I remember correctly, FC3 doesn't come compiled with ntfs support out of the box. Even if you did have ntfs support, you could only read files as root. You are not allowed to create new files but are allowed to modify files provided the file size doesn't grow out of its current block allocation. I would recommend that you reformat to a fat32 partition if you intend to use this drive between Windows and Linux.

You could create a fixed entry in /etc/fstab to auto mount your external HDD provided your HDD always gets assigned the same handle .e.g /dev/sda1. Gnome in FC4 automatically creates a desktop icon of the device you plug in. You can access the device via this icon. When you have finished, just right click the icon and select eject.


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[pansophic]

When you try to mount, what error are you getting? Are you just looking for a possible device name, or are you getting a "wrong fs" error message?


pansophic

 

[bonsky]

actually, once i connect the usb drive. i can immediately see the device from my computer icon at the desktop which mentioned above. if i write click the external device, i have an option to mount, however, if i mount the device( which is the usb device 40GB) it says like " mount: does not support ntfs " somthing like that. Some thread telling me to install gmone-vfs-ntfs... something.. i tried though but cannot bring it up still... asking me some key as well.. any idea?

 

[flugh]

I feel every Fedora User should have the Fedora FAQ embedded in their brain (this page got me through FC1-3). In your case, check out How do I read my NTFS (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) drive in Fedora?. Great source of Fedora info.

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JBR