extern hard drives

H.S. hs.samix at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 02:24:55 UTC 2009


Doug Pollard wrote:

> Here is the output. I see it has an asterix under boot??  That seems wrong.
>                                                                          
>          Doug
> 
> doug at doug-Linux:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
> [sudo] password for doug:
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0009e195
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1   *           1       19457   156288321    b  W95 FAT32
> doug at doug-Linux:~$

Looks good. The asterix should not matter, it just makes it bootable.
Can you read and write files to this partition from Ubuntu?




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