X-Received: by 10.236.11.80 with SMTP id 56mr17585804yhw.22.1407861907781; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:45:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!enother.net!enother.net!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!v10no6509444qac.1!news-out.google.com!j6ni45155qas.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:45:07 -0500 From: Robert Heller Organization: Deepwoods Software X-Newsreader: TkNews 3.0 (1.0.18.4) Subject: Re: can i use external hard drive on linux? In-Reply-To: <58472497-85a4-4b8d-b81f-0909f8102ad5@googlegroups.com> References: <58472497-85a4-4b8d-b81f-0909f8102ad5@googlegroups.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Originator: heller@sharky2.deepsoft.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:45:07 -0500 Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Lps1keelOUBkVUv1JN/za/4O31wgVjoN5rHwukPyNkjR6N9h2OU3H1gqAtbi61jYXv8xQO3NXKPtVcZ!21jscnCQY6EfFyacVS8NTEqZtocoYa7bwzZ2fcFKscpZQXwS2Fno8BVTv4IWXdMeVdAzIIqtSYY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2734 X-Received-Bytes: 3056 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3038065933 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11719 At Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:11:51 -0700 (PDT) newbie2 wrote: > > Hi: > > I have an external hard drive. Usually I just plug it into my Microsoft Win= > dows 7 computer and it automatically becomes the drive H:\. Then I copy som= > e files to the external hard drive. > > Now I have two Linux Ubuntu computers. I wish to transfer some large files = > from one Linux computer to another. (I don't have a large usb flash drive).= > So I hope to use the external hard drive as usb flash drive. I am wonderin= > g if I can plug it into the Linux computer. I have to mount it, I guess. Some desktop systems will automount drives. Some desktop systems provide a diskmounter applet. And otherwise, yes, you will have to fire up the 'dreaded' terminal window and have fun with sudo and /bin/mount... (It is also possible to mess with /etc/fstab and/or /etc/auto.master and deal with things at that level -- there are man pages and lots of How Tos for 'fstab' and 'automount'.) I guess 'modern' distros include support for NTFS and depending on M$ latest incarnation of NTFS that will work (or not). (I'm assuming that this external hard drive is something over a TByte and thus too big for FAT.) > > Thank you. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services