Enabling external HDD

[Jordi Ferrando Fabra]

This is what I do to enable the external USB hard drives

1) Find out "where they are". In this case, you have an external 
/dev/sda1 partition 108.9 Gb size, let's suppose it is formatted in 
ext3, as you are reporting.

2) Left's check the partition integrity:
$ sudo -s
# fsck.ext3 /dev/sda1

3) If no errors, go ahead. If you wish to "reformat it",
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

4) Mount it. Create a directory that will be the mount point
# mkdir /media/usb
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb

5) If you whish to auto-mount it every time the system starts up, edit 
the /etc/fstab file and add it.

Good luck. Jordi.

H.M. Gladney escribió:
>
> In a Kubuntu 7.04 system, I have a USB-attached HDD that I intend to 
> use primarily for file backup, but have not discovered how to 
> configure and enable it.
>
> The "Disk & File Systems - System Settings" screen reports this device 
> with :
>
>         Name                            Mount Point     Type    
> Device          Enabled
>         Removable USB Disk SP1203N
>                 1 Partition 108.9 Gb    /usb            ext3    
> /dev/sda1       Disabled
>                 2 Partition 1.0 Kb      /media/floppy0  auto    
> /def/fd0                Disabled
>                 5 Partition 2.9 Gb      none            swap    
> /dev/sda5       Enabled
>
> What must I do to enable the first partition?  (The "modify" subscreen 
> of "Disk & File Systems - System Settings" does not seem to provide 
> for this, even after I modified its Mount Permissions to permit any user.)
>
> The just-mentioned "modify" screen does provide an "Enable at start 
> up" toggle, which I turned on before rebooting the system.  However, 
> doing this did not relieve the problem.
>
> Cheerio, Henry
>  
> H.M. Gladney  http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney
>