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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (351)	3/22/2005 12:33:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Convert USB 2.0 drive from FAT 32 to ext3. I have found limitation in using FAT 32 file systems in linux. No softlinks, one cannot really set user, group, world permission with full flexibility. At time simple commands like ls fail with Stale NFS file handle message. This actual Procedure on Redhat 7.3 system, should be same for current distributions. device showed up at /dev/sde It is the 5th USB 2.0 drive on the system. fdisk /dev/sde >p list partitions Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 * 1 14593 117218241 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) One only need to toggle partition 1 to Id 83 >t for toggle >1 for partition 1 >83 for linux partition. >w to write changes >q quit format /dev/sde1 with ext3 file system. mke2fs -j /dev/sde1 #will create ext3 journeled file system. takes a few minutes. mkdir /sde1 # make mount point. mount -t ext3 /dev/sde1 /sde1 [root@acute watson]# df \|grep sde1 Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sde1 115377640 32828 109483900 1% /sde1 NOTE: mount /dev/sde1 /sde1 will also mount but read only.