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<\/p>\nI needed something to backup my thesis and collected reference papers (just in case something happens to them during the move back to Perth). I considered getting a DVD writer, a flash-based MP3 player, or a portable HDD.<\/p>\n
I wanted something that I could use to move stuff from place to play, so a DVD writer wasn’t really convenient. I didn’t think that I would use (any of) the extra features of the flash-based MP3 player and storage was fairly limited. So it was down to the Seagate 5GB Pocket Drive and a 20GB Pocket Drive from Dick Smith. Since the 20GB was only AU$20 more (at AU$197) I decided that it was much better “bang for buck”.<\/p>\n
Here are some photos of the unit with size comparison to standard (issue if you were in the US Airforce in the 80s) items:<\/p>\n
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Anyhow, after I got the 20GB portable HDD I connected it to my machine (running Ubuntu) and expected it to “just work”… nothing happened. It wasn’t formatted, so I found the where plugdev connected the device:<\/p>\n
\r\nls -la \/dev\/* | grep plugdev\r\n<\/pre>\nI created a few partitions (one for Linux-only and one for Windows-also) using fdisk. The partition table now looks like this:<\/p>\n
\r\nDisk \/dev\/sdb: 20.0 GB, 20000268288 bytes\r\n64 heads, 32 sectors\/track, 19073 cylinders\r\nUnits = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes\r\n\r\n Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System\r\n\/dev\/sdb1 1 4769 4883440 83 Linux\r\n\/dev\/sdb2 4770 19073 14647296 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)\r\n<\/pre>\nFinally I formatted the partitions to make them usable:<\/p>\n
\r\nsudo mkfs.ext3 \/dev\/sdb1\r\nsudo mkdosfs -F32 \/dev\/sdb2\r\n<\/pre>\nUpdated: fixed mkdosfs command (thanks Steve!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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