[mythtv-users] USB Harddrives

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sun Jul 20 21:01:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How did you label the drive partition?
>
> when i formated it with gparted
>
>
>>
>> How did you actually mount it?
>
>
> in fstab:
> LABEL=d3               /tv/d3                   ext3    defaults        0 0
> then moutn /tv/d3
>
> Disk /dev/sdj: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8d399bc0
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdj1               1       60801   488384001   83  Linux
>
> better?
>
> Mitchell

Its not one of those drives that keeps switching itself off to save
power is it? There was one well known manufacturer's product a few
months back that was having problems with linux because of this
"feature". Cannot recall the drive/manufacturer involved.


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