Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive

2011-10-05 Thread Tom Bishop
e cli, depending on his skill level. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David C. Miller wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Todd Cary" > > To: centos@centos.org > > Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 6:43:10 PM > > Subject: Re: [CentO

Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive

2011-10-05 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - > From: "Todd Cary" > To: centos@centos.org > Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 6:43:10 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive > > Dave - > > I recieved this response and I am not sure what the next step &g

Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive

2011-10-05 Thread Todd Cary
Dave - I recieved this response and I am not sure what the next step should be: [root@centos5 todd]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda1 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30514. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) s

Re: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive

2011-10-05 Thread David C. Miller
- Original Message - > From: "Todd Cary" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 3:34:54 PM > Subject: [CentOS] Formatting an external USB drive > > I have an external USB drive that was formatted with NTFS and I > want to use it to backup some files from my Cento