Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-07 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:19:28 MHR wrote: On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, from the kernel documentation -- The driver currently supports read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-06 Thread Brett Davidson
MHR wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux. Forgive me, but this is simply not true. There is a fully functional NTFS module available for read-write support in CentOS 5 (if you

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 at 10:28am, Tim McGeary wrote Actually, your first email made me double check this to see if I was missing something and I was (or maybe it really wasn't there initially). So what I see now is: Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-05 Thread MHR
On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux. Forgive me, but this is simply not true. There is a fully functional NTFS module available for read-write support in CentOS 5 (if you build your own

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-05 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 at 11:20am, MHR wrote On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux. Forgive me, but this is simply not true. There is a fully functional NTFS module available for read-write

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-03 Thread Tim McGeary
James A. Peltier wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: Tim McGeary wrote: Hi all, [snip] I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l doesn't show it at all. I was trying to mount and partition it using Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-03 Thread Anup Shukla
Tim McGeary wrote: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 91201 7325720017 HPFS/NTFS This is definitely the drive. So when I try to use Webmin to mount and partition device /dev/sda (and also tried /dev/sda2) as a New Linux Native

[CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-02 Thread Tim McGeary
Hi all, As a disclaimer, I'm new to this list and very green administering CentOS. I run it on my test servers and do very basic networking and server administration (most users, permissions, and web app stuff). I have a backup server that I am using rsync to collect important in-process

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-02 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim McGeary wrote: I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l doesn't show it at all. I was trying to mount and partition it using Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to mount and partition

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-02 Thread Tim McGeary
Barry L. Kline wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim McGeary wrote: I can see the device in my /proc/bus/usb/devices file, but fdisk -l doesn't show it at all. I was trying to mount and partition it using Webmin, but I can't figure out the device name I need to give it to

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier wrote: Tim McGeary wrote: Hi all, As a disclaimer, I'm new to this list and very green administering CentOS. I run it on my test servers and do very basic networking and server administration (most users, permissions, and web app stuff). I have a backup server that I am

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

2008-01-02 Thread James A. Peltier
Tim McGeary wrote: Hi all, As a disclaimer, I'm new to this list and very green administering CentOS. I run it on my test servers and do very basic networking and server administration (most users, permissions, and web app stuff). I have a backup server that I am using rsync to collect