Andrew Greig <[email protected]> writes: > Given that I will have to mount this drive (Win XP) what values do I > extract from dmesg to do that?
Ask /proc/partitions. Look for a likely size, then run file -s on the device to confirm it's the kind of filesystem you expect. > Gentoo has some empty directories set up in /mnt so I could use one of > those, or should I be mounting into /media? FHS 2.3 basically says /mnt is for ad-hoc stuff done by the sysadmin, whereas /media is more for GUI automounty stuff. So /mnt/x would be better in this case, though it doesn't really matter. > or would booting the system up with drive powered up and connected > produce a better outcome? Depends how you connected it. USB and SATA *should* both be hot pluggable, meaning you can plug them in post-boot and they should appear. This is not the case for PATA. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
