---- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote:
>I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up
> both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition
> half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it
> comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to
> me
>
># mount
>...
>/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
>
># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1
Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on it.
Doh!! That's the 2nd time I've made that mistake recently.
]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxx
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
That's better!
Now I think I need to upgrade my BIOS so that I can boot with this thing plugged in.
Thanks,
Steve