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

rlengland at verizon.net rlengland at verizon.net
Fri Aug 10 16:15:41 UTC 2007


>From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 10:59:50 CDT
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Re: How can you get a Seagate  USB 160 GB drive to mount?

>On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:20 -0500, rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
>> 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? 
>
>With a FAT filing system, the easiest way is to use Windows to do it.
>Just right click and rename the drive.
>
>To do the same (rename a FAT filing system volume label) on Linux,
>requires using mtools (which you'll probably have to yum install).
>You'll have to configure a drive letter to apply to that drive (set
>in /etc/mtools.conf), then you use the mlabel command to change that
>drive letter's volume label.
>
>e.g. In the mtools.conf file you might have an entry like:
>drive f: file="/dev/sda1"
>Then you'd do something like the following to call it "timsdrive":
>mlabel f:timsdrive
>
>Either way, this only affects the drive name/label.
>
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Hmmm....  Now I've got to decide.  Do I want to make a minor research project out of this, or do I just want to slap the drive on the Windoze box and have done with it.

Well, it won't happen till this evening, what ever it is.

Thank you Tim.  I'll post the results.

~~R

~~R




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