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* There is evidence that some external USB enclosures are incompatible with SME:<br> http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=39114.msg178646#msg178646
 
* There is evidence that some external USB enclosures are incompatible with SME:<br> http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=39114.msg178646#msg178646
 
* Darrell May's HowTo on scrubbing and re-formatting a USB disk:<br> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-usb-disk-howto.htm
 
* Darrell May's HowTo on scrubbing and re-formatting a USB disk:<br> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/7.x/smeserver-usb-disk-howto.htm
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====USB on SME 8====
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Two things change on SME 8
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- It's difficult to work out what your device name is ie /dev/sda1 
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- The mount directory isn't automatically created
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We use hal for the first and manually create a directory for the second
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hal-find-by-property --key volume.fsusage --string filesystem
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which in this example gives
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/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_AD6E_01EE
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/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_62E87C01E87BD231
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To find the disk or partition label, or the device name run these commands with the id's from above
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hal-get-property --udi XXX --key volume.label
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hal-get-property --udi XXX --key block.device
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for example
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hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_AD6E_01EE --key volume.label
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120Gbfat32
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hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_AD6E_01EE --key block.device
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/dev/sda1
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Then check a mount point exists or create one, and monut
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ll /media
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mount /dev/sda1 /media/120Gbfat32
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ls -lh /media/120Gbfat32/
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umount /dev/sda1 (when finished)
    
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