Hi ken and Matthew, Awesome info! I'll give it a try :-)
Ken: does this answer your question? Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdf1 1 121601 976760001 b W95 FAT32 By the way I decided to use FAT32 so I can move the drive between several machines. But.., I may decide to get another one ($150.00 at Fry's final price) and do the "/dev/disk/by-id/xxxx" but with an ext3 partition which will be much more efficient. Thanks!!! Alfredo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chanoch (Ken) Bloom Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:03 AM To: lugod's technical discussion forum Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives are thumb drives and the like, single-user disks that come and go. You can change that, though. Create a rule to identify the device uniquely in udev and to assign it a permenant device node (I can't tell you exactly how to do this, it will depend on being able to find something like a serial number that udev can use to identify it.), then add that device node to /etc/fstab, with appropriate mount options. Just out of curiousity, what's the block size (the size occupied by a 1 byte file) on a 1 TB fat32 drive? --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
