Mounting an external HDD

[Chuck Vose]

Should be as easy as 'sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd'. Almost always
fat can be autodetected but if you get a 'kernel doesn't support vfat'
or whatever all you need to do is 'sudo modprobe vfat'.

<history> There was a mention of new disks being under /media, and
this is really how it's supposed to be under the LFS standard. /mnt is
supposed to be for temporary use by the kernel but there's a pretty
big debate over it simply because /media is new, and breaks anything
older than a few years that uses /mnt (which is still the vast
majority of software.) </history>

What the others are talking about is the Computer button on the
default top panel in GNOME. Under Computer there's a button called
Disks and there _should_ be a device in there that's your disk is
automount has figured everything out.

My understanding of Hal is that it isn't an automounter at all, even
if Hal knows what kind of disk is it, the program automount still has
to figure out what to do with it. Hal is still very much a work in
progress but it'll get better very quickly due to _incredible_ demand
and great community support.

Please let me know if these suggestions work or if you get any errors. 

-Chuck