[CentOS] Re: mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

[Scott Silva]

on 1/3/2008 7:28 AM Tim McGeary spake the following:
> 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?
> 
It is formatted with NTFS since it was probably intended for a windows system. 
You can redo it to ext3 if you are only going to use it on the linux box.
Since you are going to do it from webmin, you can delete the original 
partition, create a new one for linux using the entire drive, and format it.
You have to use the Partitions on local disks tab in webmin to format the 
drive BEFORE mounting it.

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