fstab help

heriophant · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:01 am Post subject: fstab help

Ok i have a USB 2.0 80gig western digital external drive.

How do i get it running in fstab? this drive is used for most of my file swapping, progs, drivers, mp3, ect ect on my xp box and is formatted fat32 lsusb spit this out

Bus 002 device002:id 1058:0100 western digital technologies, inc

Any help would be greatly apprecieted

Corky

D. M. P. inc · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:52 am Post subject:

1st u need to set ur kernel to support usb and fat32 support.
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heriophant · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject: re

ok thats already done, did that during the initial install

mike4148 · l33t Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 641

Currently, USB mass storage devices appear as SCSI disks. In addition to FAT32 and USB (and USB mass storage support, of course), you also need the following SCSI options enabled in your kernel (or built as modules):
CONFIG_SCSI (SCSI Support)
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD (SCSI Disk Support)

After that, the external HD will show up as a SCSI disk device node (once it's plugged in and turned on). If you don't have any other SCSI devices, it will probably be /dev/sda. From then on, you can work with it as you would any other hard disk.