On Sunday 04 November 2007 05:29, Basil Chupin wrote:

> The OP has bought himself an external HD (to be able to do a backup of
> his 10.0 system before upgrading to 10.3) and is wondering how to go
> about formatting the HD. James suggested using Yast Partitioner but when
> OP does this the USB drive doesn't appear in the Partitioner.

Exactly! :-)

> (I suspect that someone like Carlos E will be able to dredge up from his
> extensive archives the appropriate messages which provided the "fix"
> which the OP could apply to overcome his problem.)

I'll keep my fingers crossed. As an alternative I will have to fire up my old 
Celeron 400 Mhz with 128 MB ram (which I guess will not run recent versions 
of SuSE), and use it as a backup media (scp over ethernet). Speaking of 
which: Is the a size limit for a tar-file? (can I make one big tar of my 
entire /home ~ around 15 - 30 GB depending of how much I clean up).

Loking very much forward to the 10.3 upgrade - and to a better backup 
routine :-)

Best,
Janus
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