How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?

[rlengland at verizon.net]

>From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
>Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 10:52:30 CDT
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: How can you get a Seagate  USB 160 GB drive to mount?

>rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
>> 
>> I created the fstab entry only to test whether the device worked.
>> I'll remove it.
>> 
>> I don't think I've placed a label on an external device after the
>> fact. What is the procedure? And does it have any harmful effects on
>> data on the device?
>> 
>> This drive has someone's complete audio collection on it and they
>> would prefer to not loose it. :-)
>> 
>How to do it depends on the file system. For 2e/e3 file systems,
>e2label will add a label without affecting the file system. For
>(V)FAT file systems, I have not found a good way to add a label
>under Linux. You can add one under windows without any problems.
>
>Mikkel
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It's VFAT.   I'll have to wait till I get back to the machine tonight and connect it to my one lone Windoze box.

Thank you Mikkel.  I'll report on the results.

~~R

~~R