On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Paul Erickson<va7nt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/17/2009 03:10 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > I have been using a Seagate FreeAgent Go external usb drive for this purpose > for some time and has worked flawlessly. When I got the drive I simply > re-partitioned it with ext3 from scratch, and removed all trace of the > Windows one-touch backup system in the process. > > Plugging in to F10 and F11 based systems under Gnome works just fine and I > run backups based on rsync (and rdiff-backup). > > The drive is physically small and neat and the only minor issue is the short > usb lead that comes with the drive. > > > Hi Mike, > > If you don't mind, I would appreciate a little more detail. I have been > trying to get > a 500g Segate FreeAgent Go to work, and so far, I have had no success. When > I can > get the box to recognize it, I keep getting write errors, and frequently the > drive > will not be recognized at all. > > Thanks in advance. No problem - First i did yum install qtparted and then I simply plugged in the drive and used qtparted to remove the existing partitions and then write a single ext3 partition on the drive. I can't remember if I had to unmount the drive after it was plugged in but when doing these kinds of operation I usually do tail -f /var/log/messages and see what the device name is when a drive is plugged in. If an icon pops up on the Gnome desktop I then right click it and select unmount drive. I don't remember this being a problem at all. Once I had re-written the new partition and got the operation applied I then removed the drive and plugged it back in and then it just worked flawlessly after that. I partitioned it on a machine running F10, but I seem to remember that the qparted package is actually from F9 according to the tag on the rpm. I guess that any other partitioning tool should in principle also work - but certainly qtparted worked for me. I hope that helps. -- mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
