Re: external usb drive

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:19, Sarah Fish wrote:
> How do I access an external usb 2.0 harddrive?  I have read a couple of 
> "How-tos", but something isn't registering in my brain. I've had a very 
> bad day!

Plug it in. Watch /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages as root).
See what the device gets registered as.

Generally, it should work such that you perform:
    mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/extdisk

Where vfat is the filesystem type of the usb hard drive, /dev/sda1 is
what you picked up from the messages, and /mnt/extdisk is the path to
mount it.

All the best.