[NCLUG] usb hd

[Stephen Queen]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, William Dan Terry wrote:

> My notebook died in a car accident (fortunately I didn't). The HD booted
> right up in the replacement notebook I got. Now I have the HD from the
> replacement system. I've gotten a USB enclosure after looking into USB
> storage support. However, I seem to be missing some pieces of the
> puzzle. I'd appreciate any help with these. Fortunately (in a warped
> way) I can't go anywhere. So besides resting and healing I have more
> time than in the past to putter with this. I want to set up the external
> USB HD for mounting for easy back ups.
>
> It would seem that I need something useful to mount. The only way I can
> think of formating the external HD is to actually put it into the
> notebook in place of my old RH9 HD and use KRUD to create a new,
> extremely bare system. I do have Mandrake Move and KNOPPIX, though I
> haven't tried them on this notebook. I could boot the notebook with
> them, but would they find my "new" HD and allow me to format it?
> Frankly, I can't remember ever adding a disk to a Linux system (last
> time I did something close was a SCSI on IRIX). Any thoughts or
> references that people would suggest on how to make this HD just a
> single partition EXT3 disk? The HD is a notebook HD. So I can't hook it
> up to a multidisk workstation. I have no FD.
>
I'm not sure of your question here. I think your asking how
to format a usb HD.

If you have your USB drivers correctly set up, it should
look like a scsi drive.

Then to partion the drive just use something like cfdisk
	cfdisk /dev/sda
if it is your 1st scsi HD.

Then make your filesystem with mkfs.ext3
	mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
if it is the 1st partition on your first scsi drive and you
want an EXT3 filesystem.

Steve