Re: formatting an e-book

[Steve <zephod@xxxxxxxxxx>]

---- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote:
> >I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up
> > both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition
> > half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it
> > comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to
> > me
> >
> ># mount
> >...
> >/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
> >
> ># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1
> 
> Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on it.

Doh!! That's the 2nd time I've made that mistake recently.
]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xxxxxxxxx

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1      121601   976760001    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

That's better!

Now I think I need to upgrade my BIOS so that I can boot with this thing plugged in.

Thanks,
Steve

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