[CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD
Tim McGeary
tmm8 at Lehigh.EDU
Thu Jan 3 15:28:04 UTC 2008
James A. Peltier wrote:
> James A. Peltier wrote:
>> Tim McGeary wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
[snip]
>>>
>>> I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l
>>> doesn't show it at all. I was trying to mount and partition it using
>>> Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to
>>> mount and partition it. How is the best way to figure that out?
>>> This particular server is running CentOS 4.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tim
>>>
>> If it's a brand new drive it will not have a valid partition table. A
>> simple sudo /sbin/fdisk -l will show all drives and their partition
>> tables. The one with an invalid partition table is the one you're
>> interested in.
>>
> Sorry, just read again and noticed that fdisk did not show you anything. :(
Actually, your first email made me double check this to see if I was
missing something and I was (or maybe it really wasn't there initially).
So what I see now is:
Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 91201 732572001 7 HPFS/NTFS
This is definitely the drive. So when I try to use Webmin to mount and
partition device /dev/sda (and also tried /dev/sda2) as a New Linux
Native Filesystem (ext3), I get the error of:
Failed to save mount : Mount failed :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems
So I'm guessing I'm using the wrong file system type. What should I use
instead of ext3?
Thanks,
Tim
Tim McGeary '99, '06G
Senior Systems Specialist
Lehigh University
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tim.mcgeary at lehigh.edu
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