---- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote: > >I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up > > both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition > > half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it > > comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to > > me > > > ># mount > >... > >/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat > > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) > > > ># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 > > Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on it. Doh!! That's the 2nd time I've made that mistake recently. ]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxx Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) That's better! Now I think I need to upgrade my BIOS so that I can boot with this thing plugged in. Thanks, Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
