External Hard Drive

ian douglas id at w98.us
Sun Nov 14 13:44:53 UTC 2004


> make a mount point like
>   mkdir /mnt/maxtor
> and mount it
>   mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/maxtor

Check 'dmesg' after you plug it in, it'll describe the device name, but in
my experience, the only external USB drive I plug in has always been
/dev/sda1 as well.

FC3 seems to mount it automatically for me though, under /media/

-id




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