[Novalug] USB drive woes...

[Roy Wilson]

It's all video - avi format for the most part.  I need (alright, WANT) to be able to access it directly, hence the big USB drives.


 Even if it wasn't, I'd kinda like to be able to USE this 3tb drive I just spent a couple hundred bucks on...  :/



> Ya know, there is this command called "rm". Also "gzip"
> 
> Archives of what? If it's similar data, such as multiple backups there 
> is a package/program called "hardlinks", that compares two directory 
> trees recursively and hardlinks any duplicate files together.
> 
> JIM
> 
> On 1/21/2012 5:47 PM, Roy Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  My 2tb external USB drive is down to 8gb free, so I bought a new 3tb 
> external USB drive to shuffle some archives around.
>> 
>>     They're both Western Digital "Elements" drives. 
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>     The system (kubuntu) doesn't see the new drive, doesn't even 
> tell me a USB device was plugged in.
>> 
>>     HOWEVER...  MountManager ("Tool for monitoring of partitions") 
> sees "sda 931gb disk" (that's the system internal hard drive), 
> "sdb 1863gb disk" (that's the 2tb USB disk), AND  "sdc 
> 2794.5gb disk" - that MUST be the new 3tb USB disk.
>> 
>>     Anyone have some clues (better yet, instructions...:)) on how to access 
> this disk?
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  Novalug mailing list
>>  Novalug at calypso.tux.org
>>  http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>