USB hard drive

[Guy Fraser]

On Fri, 2006-31-03 at 19:58 +0000, Jim Douglas wrote:
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel: SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte
> hdwr 
> >sectors (80000 MB)
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write
> through
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel: SCSI device sda: 156250000 512-byte
> hdwr 
> >sectors (80000 MB)
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write
> through
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel:  sda: sda1
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
> >Mar 31 12:03:28 xxxxxx scsi.agent[7272]: disk at 
> >/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0

>From what I see, this looks like an 80GB drive with a single partition :

/dev/sda1

Only "unix" partitions {EXT2,EXT3,XFS,...} that large can be mounted.
FC5 can not mount NTFS and FAT32 has a maximum size of 32GB. You could
make at least one 32GB FAT32 partition, and use the rest of the space
for NTFS or make two more FAT32 partitions. The only thing of note, is 
FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB, so you can't store a complete 
DVD image without splitting it {see: man split, you can rejoin using :
cat partfile1 partfile2 ... partfileN >fullfile}.

TTFN