Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

Jeremy Abbott
2004-12-29T22:13:43Z

chuck gelm wrote:

> Eve Atley wrote:
>
>> We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII.
>> We were
>> considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver,
>> hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that
>> the usb
>> is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0, though the drive does say it's 1.1
>> compatible. Second, what issues do we need to resolve in order for a.
>> the
>> Linux box to read the drive, and b. formatting the unformatted external
>> drive to work with the Linux box?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eve
>
>
> Hi, Eve:
>
> I recently purchased a USB interface device that accepts a 2.5" hard
> drive. It is USB 2.0 & 1.1 compatible, it just runs slower at v1.1
> according to the documentation. I inserted one of my linux laptop
> driver and plugged it into my USB port of a Slackware v9.1,
> kernel 2.4.22, workstation and 'tail /var/log/messages' reported:
>
> Dec 29 05:18:21 server kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.3-6,
> assigned address 3
> Dec 29 05:18:22 server kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Dec 29 05:18:35 server kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> Dec 29 05:18:38 server usb.agent[1535]: missing kernel or user mode
> driver usb-storage
>
> I am not sure what the last line meant but, knowing that my
> 1st partition is swap and the 2nd the working partition, I:
>
> mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/hd
>
> mounts the filesystem at /mnt/hd :-)
>
> 'lsmod' |grep -i usb shows that
> usb-storage and usbcore
> are installed.
>
> As Ray mentioned, if your new drive is unpartitioned and/or unformatted;
> I assume that you can use 'fdisk' to partition and mkfs.????
> to create a filesystem on it.
>
> HTH, Chuck
>
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Quote "As Ray mentioned, if your new drive is unpartitioned and/or
unformatted;
I assume that you can use 'fdisk' to partition and mkfs.????
to create a filesystem on it. "

To create a partion, run fdisk and partion the correct device. If you
wish to format the drive with a file system, you can use:

mke2fs /dev/hdXX (sdXX for scsi) for an ext2 partition
mke2fs -j /dev/hdXX for ext3 partition
mkresierfs /dev/hdXX for a reiser3 partion

I personally use an ext2 on my boot partion, and a reiser 3 for
everything else linux.

One more thing, the partitions must have a file system installed in
order for you to mount them.

Jeremy
jkbullfrog@comcast.net