question regarding mounting the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive

[Darlene Wallach]

Craig,

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 15:16 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote:
>> After I partition, format and label the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T drive
>> and I'm ready to mount it is this what I should use:
>>
>> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid, nodev,allow_other,blocksize=4096
>> /dev/sdb1 /media/<myLabel>
>>
>> Should I add - uhelper=hal to the mount?
>>
>> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid,
>> nodev,uhelper=hal,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1
>> /media/<myLabel>
>>
>> what about adding shortname=lower to the mount?
>>
>> mount -t fuseblk -o rw,nosuid,
>> nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,allow_other,blocksize=4096 /dev/sdb1
>> /media/<myLabel>
>>
>> Thank you for your attention, consideration, and feedback.
> ----
> What is it that you hope to accomplish by forcibly mounting this rather
> than just allowing the natural mount occur when you plug it in?

I am unmounting the drive then partitioning and formatting the drive
for ext3. I thought I would have to mount it after that.

>
> Craig
>

Darlene Wallach
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