how to connect to an USB disk drive...

[Matthew Carpenter]

My USB Thumbdrive just shows up as a HD on my KDE Desktop.  Not a whole lot of problems there.  Sorry.  SuSE 8.2 is pretty simple.


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:59:15 -0700 (PDT)
Swapana Ghosh <swapana_ghosh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> >>Define "disk drive".  That can mean floppy, hard,
> >>CD, or tape drives. 
> 
> It is a hard disk drive.
> 
> >>Also, what brand/model is it?  Is it supported
> >>under Linux?  
> 
> It is supported by Linux. Model etc i am sorry i can't
> provide , i am working remotely with this server. This
> is done by somebody else and i have no information
> regarding this only i heard it is a 200gb capacity of
> hard disk.
> 
> >>Did you load 
> >>the appropriate modules to support it?  Did it ever
> >>work before under 
> >>Linux?  
> 
> This is brand new hard disk. 
> 
> >>Did you mount the filesystem on the drive? 
>  >>Is there even a 
> >>filesystem at all on the media in the drive?
> 
> Yes there are other files system there . But USB drive
> is the first time it is attached. Here i am giving the
> present status of the server ....
> 
> --------------------------X---------------------
> [root at server root]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available
> Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              3091312    351272   2583008 
> 12% /
> /dev/hdb1             39642712  33582140   4046828 
> 90% /backup
> /dev/hda1              2577392     62528   2383936  
> 3% /boot
> /dev/hdb2             10317860   7638672   2155068 
> 78% /home
> /dev/hdb5              2577392     37712   2408752  
> 2% /opt
> none                    192364         0    192364  
> 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb6              2063504    546440   1412244 
> 28% /tmp
> /dev/hda5              3201980   2384488    654836 
> 79% /usr
> /dev/hdb3              3091312   1137892   1796388 
> 39% /var
> /dev/hdc1             30241928  16700492  12005224 
> 59% /back-srvr1
> /dev/hdc2             30241960  19786852   8918896 
> 69% /back-srvr2
> /dev/hdc3             20161204   1516388  17620676  
> 8% /back-srvr3
> /dev/hdc4             17836516  12938764   3991688 
> 77% /back-srvr4
> [root at server root]#
> --------------------------X---------------------
> 
> Thanks and regards.
> -Swapna
> 
> 
> 
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