[Swlug] External hard drive

[Colin Law]

Just to clarify, I didn't mean double checked you have plugged in the
right drive, but when you come to format it make sure you have
specified the right one in gparted, not your system disc.  Though in
fact there shouldn't be an issue as it will not let you format a
mounted drive.

Colin

On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 14:29, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 14:25, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Colin, the following shows up as a message on top f terminal ...
> >
> > Error mounting /dev/sdb at /media/bill/nEW: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb" "/media/bill/nEW"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
>
> I am surprised xfat is not recognised, but if there is nothing on it
> you would be better to format it with ext4 anyway.  Plug it in then
> run gparted and it will let you format it with a gui.  Just make
> double sure (and then a few more) that you are formatting the right
> drive.
>
> Colin
>
> >
> >
> > It looks as though I need to format the drive (the Samsung is what I'm using), but how?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, 2 February 2019, 13:26:23 GMT, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 13:01, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> > <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have an idea my laptop is feeling the strain a bit, and I should like to get an external hard drive to back up all my data before something bad happens.
> > >
> > > I have a Sandisk SSD and a Samsung SSD, but cannot get the laptop HP elitebook running Mint Mate (Caja 1.12.7) to recognise either of them. I'd appreciate some help with this please, and advice on what external hard drive is best to back up important data. Looking at at least 1Tb.
> >
> > I presume they are USB drives.  Run
> > tail -f /var/log/syslog
> > and plug in one of the drives.  Post what you get here.  In case you
> > don't know you can copy out of the terminal using Ctrl-Shift-C
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
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