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| ======Hard Drives and Linux====== | ======Hard Drives and Linux====== | ||
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| - | Determine the device node of the drive you are going to format by first seeing what drives are already part of your system: | + | Determine the device node of the drive you are going to format by first seeing what drives are already part of your system. |
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| + | Use the ''lsblk'' command to view all block devices (hard drives) attached to your computer. If the ''lsblk'' command is not clear to you, or you want to double-check what it tells you, you can investigate further: | ||
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| - | Now mount the drive by mounting all drives listed in ''/etc/fstab'': | + | And finally, mount the drive by mounting all drives listed in ''/etc/fstab'': |
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| - | mount /storage | + | mount -a |
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| Since it was primarily intended for optical media, creating a UDF volume is different from formatting a drive for any other filesystem. | Since it was primarily intended for optical media, creating a UDF volume is different from formatting a drive for any other filesystem. | ||
| - | Slackermedia recommends the UDF format for any external drive that you intend to use with more than just your own computer. It avoids file permission frustration, but maintains all the other UNIX features that one would expect from a drive. It works well on thumbdrives as well as tradition drives. By being a universal format, it ensures that the data that matters to you the most is always available to you, regardless of what OS you happen to have on hand. | + | Slackermedia recommends the UDF format for any external drive that you intend to use with more than just your own computer. It avoids both file permission frustration and file size limitations, but maintains all the other UNIX features that one would expect from a drive. It works well on thumbdrives as well as tradition drives. By being a universal format, it ensures that the data that matters to you the most is always available to you, regardless of what OS you happen to have on hand. |
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| - | mkudffs --blocksize=512 \ | + | mkudffs --utf8 \ |
| + | --blocksize=512 \ | ||
| --udfrev=0x0201 \ | --udfrev=0x0201 \ | ||
| --lvid="penguindf" \ | --lvid="penguindf" \ | ||
| --vid="penguindf" \ | --vid="penguindf" \ | ||
| - | --media-type=hd --utf8 \ | + | --media-type=hd \ |
| /dev/sdx || echo "failed" | /dev/sdx || echo "failed" | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| Accept the default options so that you are using all available space on the drive. | Accept the default options so that you are using all available space on the drive. | ||
| - | [{{ kvpm_fs.part.png | Create a partition on a drive.}}] | + | [{{ kvpm_part.png | Create a partition on a drive.}}] |
| One the new partition appears, right-click on the partition inside the drive and choose **Filesystem operations** → **Make filesystem**. | One the new partition appears, right-click on the partition inside the drive and choose **Filesystem operations** → **Make filesystem**. | ||
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