External Hard Drive Detection Problem need help

[Ralph De Witt]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:51:55 Jordi Ferrando Fabra wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> This is what I did to use my WD external HDDs:
> First edit the partition table and create a partition type "Linux"
Jordi:
Thanks for your reply. As I am on unfamiliar ground, I am checking each step 
of the Way. I have used qtParted to reformat the drive ext3. Then I created a 
80 gb partition labeled Backup (my intention is to keep a up to date copy of 
my laptop hard drive here),
I then created a partition on the remainder of the hard drive labeled Data (my 
intention here is to use this partition for all my pictures, music, and scan 
files. I then would point Amarok, Digicam, and kooka to this partion and the 
appropriate files.)
I have now edited the partition table to add manually these two new 
partitions. This is the new partition table:

/etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=b8bf4a2b-16ff-43f1-95c1-2d3bd1704107 /               ext3    
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=96c39be8-78fc-420f-bd02-610e701dea2a /home           ext3    defaults        
0       2
# /dev/sda2
UUID=03a59c0e-a33c-46a0-b046-f06e0cc5c994 none            swap    sw              
0       0
# /dev/sdb1
Linux /Backup	ext3	defaults	0	2
# /dev/sdb2
Linux /Data	ext3	defaults	0	2
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0


 Is the manual edit correct?
Would my next step be to go to the mount hard drive step? TIA

> $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda (or sdb, sdc, ...)
> -->Create the partition and save changes
> Create the file system
> $ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 (or sdb1, ...)
> Mount the hard drive (this is also done by the automounter sometimes)
> $ sudo mkdir /media/extdisk
> $ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/extdisk
>
(Snip)


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