Jul 31
This isn’t anything fancy but I think it may be useful to some peeps out there. If you run FC and would like to add a Maxtor brick, you may run into some small issues with the existing partition tables. To get around that, you can follow the steps below:
- First off, connect the brick (USB) to your FC box
- Look in dmesg for “OneTouch”. You can run dmesg | grep OneTouch. You should be able to find it
- Now sudo as root and run fdisk /dev/sdd1 (you need to look at dmesg to determine what it is, in my case it was sdd1)
- Okay now you can run $p (for print) under fdisk to view the partition table.
- Now you’re going to run $d (remove paritions 1 - 4 …) so you’ll end up with nothing on the brick. If you run $p afterwards, you’ll see nothing.
- Now create a new partition $n just use the default options. You should end up with something like /dev/sdd1p1
- Do $w to write the prition table. Ignore any of the messages, remove the drive, reconnect it.
- Now run mkfs -t ext3 -j /de/sdd1 and wait until it’s done.
- At this point you should consider making a directory under /mnt/ (call it brick)
- Mount the brick using $mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/brick
- Run $df -h to make sure you can see the mount
- Consider editing the fstab and adding the new partition to it. If you know *nix well enough, you should know what I’m referring to. If not, please use ‘man fstab’ or email me, k?!
- You’re done, you can use the brick. Trivial but useful…