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James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I just got a 500G FreeAgent (Seagate) drive. |
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> I have it working via ivman: |
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> /dev/sdb1 466G 144M 466G 1% /media/FreeAgent Drive |
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> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bc2:3000 Seagate RSS LLC |
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> I'm able to cd into it's directory tree and read various |
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> files. |
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> I assume it has NTFS by default. I have all of the legacy |
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> doz file systems enabled along with idonify in the kernel. |
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> I want to use it on both gentoo and windows systems |
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> for a variety of tasks. What the best way to set it up |
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> (ideas) so as to ensure what I copy onto the drive, |
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> form either gentoo or xp I can copy off onto a gento |
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> or XP based system? Should I delete any of the original |
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> stuff that Seagate installs on the drive? |
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> Also, I'm thinking about a udev rule or fstab entry |
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> on the gentoo system to uniquely identify the drive |
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> as I often attach several usb(stick or drive) devices |
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> to one system at any given time; so I'm looking for |
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> a scheme that they will each be unquely recognized (Labeled? |
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> any caveats? |
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> James |
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Most, in fact all of the external drives I have used come formatted with |
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fat32 standard even the 500GB iomega I recently bought. |
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So copying between OSes should not be a problem :-) |
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Wayn0 |
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