19 Sep
2003
19 Sep
'03
10:45 a.m.
Dear ALUG,
I am looking to buying a USB hard drive and wondering if anyone knows anything about using them with Linux.
Presumably I would have to set up a new block device connected to one of the USB ports. I could then mount it at somewhere like /mnt/usbhd.
The ones I've looked at say that you have to write your own partition table and format the partitions yourself; how would I do this?
(The details of the one I'm thinking of are here: http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-info3-info.asp?&m=y&quicklinx=2BDV.)
Cheers in advance. Richard