On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:19, Sarah Fish wrote: > How do I access an external usb 2.0 harddrive? I have read a couple of > "How-tos", but something isn't registering in my brain. I've had a very > bad day! Plug it in. Watch /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages as root). See what the device gets registered as. Generally, it should work such that you perform: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/extdisk Where vfat is the filesystem type of the usb hard drive, /dev/sda1 is what you picked up from the messages, and /mnt/extdisk is the path to mount it. All the best. -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ http://training.bytebot.net/ - FREE OpenOffice.org Training http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/ - Fedora News Updates
