***OLUG TAGS THIS AS SPAM*** Re: [olug] USB drive...

[Sean Kelly]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:46:25PM -0600, Noel Leistad wrote:
> Have a usb2.0 hard drive, currently formatted ntfs so not presently 
> usable on FC4, which recognizes it and creates /mnt/PocketDrive mount 
> point for /dev/sdb1
...
> //end fdisk print

That is a pretty messed up partition table. You sure that is being read
right and isn't corrupted? You sure there is NTFS on there somewhere?

> What a mess. Anyway, is any of this required for USB access. Can I blow 
> it all away, create linux partition and mkfs the drive??

Blow it all away. You should be able to wipe the disk totally clean
(optional), make new partitions and a partition table, and new filesystems
without any problem.

> 
> Will no longer work on WinXP, but OK for FC4 right??

Should be.

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