Re: Firewire/USB external 400 GB drive under Fedora

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tor, 17.03.2005 kl. 05.23 skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> Hi,
> 
> When I opened the box for my external USB/Firewire disk drive, I
> discovered NTFS.  (Ah fooey)  My kernel does not support NTFS.
> 
> Can I just reformat the external storage device directly under Fedora?
> 
> 
> Here is the error I get when trying to mount the file system:
> =================================================================
> mount /media/New_Volume/
> mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
> =================================================================
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ernest

I would guess you could. Personally, i would recomend using vfat, as it
won't give you any permissions trouble when you move the disk around
between differend computers.

"mkfs.vfat /dev/sd??" that is.




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