<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2010 14:06, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 09/09/10 13:42, Simon Sleaford wrote:<br>
> Hi Martin<br>
><br>
> This is the results of the command:<br>
><br>
> *simon@106602-1004:~$ ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr**<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda1*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda2*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda5*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb1*<br>
> *brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 2010-09-09 11:09 /dev/sdc*<br>
> *brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-09-09 13:19 /dev/sr0*<br>
> *brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sr1*<br>
> *simon@106602-1004:~$ *<br>
><br>
><br>
> As you can see it sees it as a cdrom drive but it's actually on Western<br>
</div>> Digital Passport USB hard drive. ...<br>
<br>
Are sdb,sdb1,sdc and sr0,sr1 the same one physical device?... Or is sr0<br>
a real "cdrom" device?<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399"> sdb and sdb1 are the same device, ie the USB hard drive. sr0 is my cd-rom drive (I checked it with the eject command) and sr1 is the "virtual" CD drive that is mounted when I plug in the drive.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399"> </font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
<br>
> there and don't have anywhere to copy it to.<br>
<br>
</div>Eeek... You must always keep a safe backup somewhere. That includes a<br>
backup-of-your-backup if you are doing dubious things to your backup!<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399">This is my backup drive. I've got the live data at home on a laptop, the files on this drive are the backups of my wife's photos etc. Most likely, I daren't delete them in case she has decided she wants to free up space at home knowing she has backups. I've got another drive at home that I can plug into my router for further backups when I get round to it, I guess I should make the effort!</font></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
<br>
> I knows it's only a single gigabyte out of 320GB but I'm a bit annoyed<br>
> that Western Digital decided that I would like their software in a<br>
> difficult to remove partition on my drive.<br>
<br>
</div>Manufacturer coercion is rather annoying. It's also annoying to know<br>
that you can't make full utilisation of whatever device... Mmmm...<br>
Perhaps that's why we have the FOSS and FSF evangelists?!<br>
<br>
<br>
Which partition does your backup data appear on?<br></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#993399">My data is on /dev/sdb1 </font></div>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
<br>
<br>
FOSS: Free Open Source Software<br>
FSF: Free Software Foundation<br>
<br>
(Free meaning "freedom")<br>
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Martin Lomas<br>
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