Sidux/Useable applications/External drive

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Mounting

 * An external drive such as PenDrive, FlashDrive or External Hard Drive has "fat32" file system.
 * It has to be mounted automatically on Desktop so you don't need to do anything with that.
 * If an external drive doesn't want to mount itself, you can do it in Terminal: Sidux/Post-installation work/Mounting Partitions

Unmounting

 * To unmount it choose from mouse menu: Unmount or do it in Terminal:

umount /dev/partition_number

Formating

 * If you want to format an external drive, do it in one of two ways: using GParted or fdisk and mkfs.

GParted

 * GParted is an application with graphical GUI so you can do it easy.
 * 1. Connect a drive to an USB port.
 * 2. Run GParted (as root): Menu-> System-> GParted
 * 3. The application will display hard drive partitions as first "/dev/sda".


 * then change disk drive choosing "/dev/sdb" on top right corner.


 * 4. If the partition is locked (key icon), mark it and choose from mouse menu: Unmount.


 * 5. Next choose: Format to "fat32".


 * and-> Apply


 * 6. If everything goes ok you will get message: All operations successfully completed, then-> Close.




 * GParted home page: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
 * An on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted

fdisk / mkfs

 * 1. If you prefer to format a drive in Terminal, first check all connected drives as root:

su fdisk -l
 * a. "/dev/sda_number" is an hard drive partition.
 * b. "/dev/sdb_number" is an external drive partition.
 * 2. You can remove a partition and create new one first if you want:

fdisk /dev/sdb
 * a. to remove partition type: "d"
 * b. to create new partition type: "n"
 * c. choose new partition type: primary "p" or extended "e"
 * d. type partition number: 1 to 4 for primary and from 5 for extended
 * e. type the first and the last cylinder number
 * f. choose file system type; "l" for list displaying, "b" for "vfat" type
 * g. write table to disk and exit: "w"
 * 3. You can format a partition without creating new partition or after that:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
 * It'll make "vfat" file system on "/dev/sdb1" partition".


 * About fdisk on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdisk