I just bought an 80GB, USB, SATA, portable, external, hard disk, and I have some doubts:
0. Is there a Howto addressing Linux on external hard disks? 1. How to shut down? Simply unplugging the USB cable, after unmounting, is wrong, is it not? 2. When I lock the screen, I want to remove the hard disk. Is this possible? 3. I have heard about hibernation. After hibernation: (A) Can I remove the hard disk? (B) Can I un-hibernate on another computer? 4. I want to get the drive details: manufacturer, model, etc. I there a program which takes the device file as input, and outputs the device characteristics? 5. About encrypted partitions, and LVM: Are they readable, and writable from Microsoft Windows? 6. How to copy a NTFS partition to the hard disk? I checked Parted, and NTFS-3G but they doesn't appear to support this. 7. About partitioning: Does Microsoft Windows require the first primary partition, to be bootable? 8. Any other information: Pitfalls, advice, comments, etc.? -- Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
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