External HDD in Ubuntu
A close friend gave me another of his gathering-dust and seldom-used hardware - (done with a but of arm-twisting). I got the package early yesterday. As I’ve expected, it contained the hard disk enclosure he agreed to give me, although I wish it came with HDD. But that is asking too much, right?
I guess I’ll be doing my backup with it. Previously, backing up data involve an old PC that also serves as my development server. Scary isn’t it? Close to 10 GB of pictures are at stake here. It’s about time those be separated from anything that can possibly be toasted by my rouge scripts.
Anyway, what I did was to take the hard drive of another old PC to be used by the enclosure. It’s easy as pie. Just connect the HDD to the E/IDE and power cables, plug in the USB cable to my notebook running Ubuntu Dapper Drake and double click on the USBDisk icon in the desktop to see the content of the HDD. In my case the HDD is in ext3 format, it having Debian.
I would like to thank Vincent of vljuson.com for the enclosure. Keep them coming, dude. By the way, he has tons of stuff for sale he features on his site.
April 13th, 2007 at 4:55 am
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P.S. - CSS update?
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See ya Later